The blue catfish is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current challenger for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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