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Catfish farming was in its infancy in 1960 when the late Winston Turner, a former US Army Corps of Engineers employee in Greenville began making seine nets and commercial fishing nets. A commercial fisherman himself, Turner designed seine nets based on his own needs.
Through the years, catfish farms spawned across the Delta. Today, Delta Net and Twine is the largest provider of catfish seine nets and fingerling seines in the South. Winston Turner’s son Terry now owns and operates the business. He is assisted by his wife Linda and their son, Scotty Turner – the third generation of Turner seine-and-net makers.
Terry Turner learned seine and net making from his father while working at the company’s original location on Clay Street in Greenville. Terry was 9 years old when he completed his first net, which was 100 yards long. “It took me all day long to make it” he said, laughing.
Catfish farming was in its infancy in 1960 when the late Winston Turner, a former US Army Corps of Engineers employee in Greenville began making seine nets and commercial fishing nets. A commercial fisherman himself, Turner designed seine nets based on his own needs.
Through the years, catfish farms spawned across the Delta. Today, Delta Net and Twine is the largest provider of catfish seine nets and fingerling seines in the South. Winston Turner’s son Terry now owns and operates the business. He is assisted by his wife Linda and their son, Scotty Turner – the third generation of Turner seine-and-net makers.
Terry Turner learned seine and net making from his father while working at the company’s original location on Clay Street in Greenville. Terry was 9 years old when he completed his first net, which was 100 yards long. “It took me all day long to make it” he said, laughing.
Delta recently moved into a 22,000-square-foot facility on Highway 1 South in Greenville. The new building, located two miles south of the previous plant, covers an additional 6,000 square feet. Turner added a 25-by-50-foot showroom filled with net repair supplies, fish farming equipment and commercial fishing supplies ranging from commercial fishing boots, to spotlights and minnow traps.
About half of Delta Net and Twine seines are made for customers in Mississippi. The company also serves Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, Texas, and California. Delta Net and Twine ships to South America and overseas as well.