The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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