The silver cat is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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