The forktail cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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CNN.com to Trying - save a catfish as big as a bear - Dec. 1, 2003 When as catfish was listed the endangered on the World Conservation Union's Red List - fishermen use the long nets that end up trapping the giant catfish. -