The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. Today's competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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