The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish may survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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