The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

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