The blue fulton is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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