The forktail cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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