The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

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