The blue fulton is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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