Farmers Grill 1, 39365 US Highway 264 E, Belhaven, NC 27810, US

Carolina Classics Catfish custom harvests catfish ponds in the Carolinas and Georgia. Its catfish is shipped alive to an 11,000-square-foot processing plant, where it is turned into fillets, nuggets and other forms for shipment along the East Coast and abroad. Carolina Classics contracts with more than 40 growers that grow fingerlings for longer than one year or until fish are market size. The company is located on a 270-acre farm, which raises both food fish and fingerlings. Since 1998, Carolina Classics has handled more than 7.5 million pounds of catfish. Rob Mayo founded Carolina Classics Catfish in 1985.