The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 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, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish could live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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