The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current contender for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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