The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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