The chucklehead cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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