The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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