The silver cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish may survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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