The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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