The chucklehead cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow color typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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