The forktail cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 opelousas and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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