The silver cat is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. The current rival for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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