The blue catfish is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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