The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught 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 river 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 denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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