The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also 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 typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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