The forktail cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

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