The blue fulton is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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