The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current rival for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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Archived conservation Giant for news Catfish At 121 pounds, Splash the Giant Catfish is the biggest blue catfish ever caught. - Mekong Giant Catfish Critically Endangered, Says IUCN Nov 18, 2003 -