With the Catfish Chasers Tournament Series coming up on its 10th season, organizer David Studebaker thinks the best is yet to come. There's good reason for his optimism. In July, for example, a night ...

One serving of catfish is chock-full of lean protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals. It’s also low in mercury. Catfish are one the oldest and most widespread fish species. In fact, catfish ...

Catfish, especially blue catfish, can grow to enormous sizes. The Mississippi state record is 95 pounds and was caught in the Mississippi River near Natchez. Flatheads, another popular species, can ...

“If a blue catfish is going to get big, it will get big in a reasonable time frame, but some have a sort of predisposition to grow very slowly. Even in an environment like Kerr (Reservoir) where they ...

Catfish is a game fish famous for being affordable and available throughout the U.S. However, not many people know that, like many other fishes, it possesses some fantastic nutritional benefits. These ...

The effects of semi-intensive (100 kg m−3), intensive (200 kg m−3), and super-intensive (400 kg m−3) stocking densities on the growth and welfare of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) were ...

A team of researchers in the School of Fisheries at Auburn University compared results from diets for channel catfish and Nile tilapia created with either crystalline lysine or intact lysine, said ...

Left pectoral spines were collected from 1,478 channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) taken in western Lake Erie during 1957, 1958, and 1959. Projected images of thin cross sections of the spines were ...

Nick Kangas, a summer 2022 intern at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' area fisheries office in Baudette, holds a channel catfish sampled in June 2022 during the Grand Forks portion of a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gigantic, 112-lb. (50 kilograms) catfish was reeled in by a North Carolina man the day before ...