The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 yellow cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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