The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish might survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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