In July 2025, Marvin and Tanisha Frink opened Briarwood Custom Meats Butcher Shop at 5476 Blue Springs Road in Red Springs, NC. Designed to be more than a retail location, the shop blends education, culinary craftsmanship and community pride into every square foot.
Technical Assistance for Meat & Poultry…and Catfish?
We’ve been operating at the Meat and Poultry Processing Technical Assistance Program since March 2022. Describing our work as Meat and Poultry…and Catfish Technical Assistance may be more accurate.
About 20 years ago, when imported catfish-like products undercut domestic catfish producers, the sector successfully petitioned Congress to declare catfish as an Amenable Species. That brought catfish under USDA jurisdiction, and today it is still the only aquatic species processed under FSIS inspection.
