The blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish may live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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