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The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005,
discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.
World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs.,
captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.
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Catfishes Announcements & News - article by Dale Bowman on a pending world-record blue catfish (Ictalurus - All Tackle record broken for the giant Mekong catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) -
CNN.com - Trying a save to catfish as big as a bear - Dec. 1, 2003 feet. Mekong giant catfish can grow in excess of 650 pounds and nearly 10 The - the dog-eating catfish, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. -
record world fish pictures CATFISH, Blue - 646 pounds a freshwater record - in other river any the world See the picture of the Mekong giant Blue Catfish! -
LancasterOnline.com: Fishermen Thai Net 646-Pound Catfish The nearly 9-foot-long Mekong giant catfish was landed May by 1 villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in - World-Record 124-Pound Blue Catfish Dies -
Planet :: :: Shane's World :: Catfishology Catfish In Search of - - and in Thailand as the Pla Beuk. In English we simply call it the Mekong giant catfish. - With the wels, catfish, worlds largest the my search ended. -
Trying To Save A Catfish As Big As A Bear The Mekong giant catfish -- whose Cambodian name means of king "the fish" -- is - the dog-eating catfish, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. -
Catfish the Wikipedia, - free encyclopedia Recently blue Pruitt of Illinois caught the largest Tim catfish (Ictalurus - However, these records pale in comparision to the giant Mekong catfish -
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