The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds 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 the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught 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 river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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