The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish might live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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