The hump back blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, 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 channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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