State Known for Coal-Growing Fish in Mine Water

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Charleston, West Virginia (AP)-A fish farmer and former miner have opened the first coal-mine fishery in the United States, a venture they hope will help turn a landlocked state known for its coal into one of the largest U.S. producers of fish. The new industry could also help put laid-off miners and others back to work and lead to business with fish-loving Japan. "We are going to raise millions and millions of fish," said John Perdue, an aide to Gov. Gaston Caperton who has been working on the idea since he was an assistant agriculture commissioner nine years ago.