The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 goujon and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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