Fish Farmer Exlores Marketing Methods
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county supervisor, and 1996
he took the office of county
commissioner helped, in
part, by a popular commercial
Hatchling Brown Trout are also called “alevin,”
since the yolk sac has not absorbed. They are ap
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Scott sees his part-time voca
tion as a fish farmer as very
valuable and the preferable
alternative to being a career
politician.
“Throughout (the political
career) I still dabbled in part
time fish fanning,” he said.
“It is just something that I
can’t seem to get out of my
system. It gives me a balance
keeps me in touch with
things that I might lose sight
of in politics.”
Scott is joined by his wife
Donna (Dee), son Gunnar,
17, and Allison, 11, on the
127-acre farm. The cropland
is rented out, which gives
time for the family to not
only raise fish but also sell
take care of their own bee
hives and honey that they sell
at their roadside stand. They
also keep chickens for their
own use. Additionally six
horses, which Dee breeds and
trains, also make their home
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In addition, the family
grows 400-700 tomato plants.
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matoes purchased from area
farmers, are used to make
ketchup that is bottled under
the label “Commissioner
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Mark Scott holds a Brown
Trout male in the outdoor race
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This outdoor raceway has
been essential to growing the
larger fish on the Scott opera
tion. Fish need to have a sub
stantial amount of water moving
through per hour “to keep fecal
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Scott’s Berks County Tomato
Ketchup” and marketed in
convenience stores, private
restaurants, and the Blue Bell
Inn, Blue Bell, Montgomery
County,