Hi Mike!
Here in Cali we have a legal season, you can catch and legally take any size from May-aug or until the females start to show eggs.
Louisiana is different, they breed them in pens and breed them along with catfish. Usually you don't get too many small ones.
I buy 40-100lbs at a time, shipped to the airport and pay just under $3.00 a lb.
No don't feed 'em to my black tree's, they get a rodent staple along with lots of bugs. Hoping the clutch I've got in the incubator will be successful, about a month to go.
Hope you and yours are well brother.
Ben