from the mighty Mississippi River for generations.

Mohn: Well, we opened the market in 1982.

On my side of family, it goes back as far as I know, back to my great-grandparents.

And that was just the way they all made their living was in the fishing.

And my dad and mom had the market right across the river until they got too old and retired and closed up.

It's closed now, too.

My husband wanted to fish, and he needed a place to sell his fish, so he sold them to my dad.

So, it was either start our own market or go out of the fishing business.

And my husband could never do that.

So, we built a market, and it's grown since then quite a bit.

Kohlsdorf: In catfish alone, Mohn's processes around 4,000 to 5,000 pounds per week.

In the morning, the fish will come in from the river in tanks.

Then we'll start processing.

We'll either just whole-dress or fillet.

And the fish get packaged into boxes.

And then once a week they get delivered to Minneapolis to Asian stores.

We cut them on a Thursday usually or Friday.

Cut him into these chunks with a saw, then put them in the cooler until Sunday.

I put them on to brine in a salt brine overnight in the cooler, and then in the morning we put them on these, wash them again, put them on these trays, and put them in the smoker.

Catfish, carp, sturgeon, and bullheads.

Kohlsdorf: Stationed right on the Great River Road, Mohn's Fish Market is carrying forward generations of tradition and a way of river life from days gone by.

Jones: Almost everybody back then, you either farmed or you fished.

And they used to put them all on railcars to be taken to Chicago or New York.

But there isn't the market there used to be for them now.

We do get a lot for the smoked, the walk-in for the smoked.

People seem to think it's an experience.

I mean, they come a long ways for it.