The silver cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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