Catfish Fun Facts
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Catfish Fun Facts: Catfishare a diverse group ofray-finnedfish. Named for their prominentbarbs, which resemble a cat’swhiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, theMekong giant catfishfrom Southeast Asia and the second longest, thewels catfishof Eurasia, todetritivores(species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a tinyparasiticspecies commonly called thecandiru,Vandellia cirrhosa.
- Catfish are raised in fresh water ponds only about four to six feet deep.
- Farm raised catfish are taught to eat feed pellets that float on top of the water. Wild catfish are bottom feeders.
- One catfish can lay up to 4,000 eggs a year per pound of body weight.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
- Young catfish are called “sac fry” because they still live off of the food supplied by the yolk sacs.
- When catfish reach 4 inches long they are called “fingerlings” (the size of an index finger).
- Catfish are harvested in nets when they weigh about one to one and a half pounds.
- About 95% of the nation’s farm-raised catfish is raised in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana.
- Catfish is now the 5thmost popular fish in America.
- Catfish is available all year round.
- The largest confirmed record in the U.S. was a blue catfish weighing 150 pounds in 1879.
Key Dates
- June 25th is National Catfish Day.
- August is National Catfish month.
Catfish Fun Facts We Missed
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Reference:Wikipedia:Fun Factsabout Catfish.
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By Richard Myrick|2020-06-25T08:12:06-04:00Jun 25, 2020|Food Facts|
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Richard Myrick is an architect by degree (Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan) who began his career in real estate development and architectural planning. In September of 2010 he created Mobile Cuisine Magazine to fill an information void he found when he began researching how to start a mobile hotdog cart in Chicago. Richard found that there was no central repository of mobile street food information anywhere on the internet, and with that, the idea for MCM was born. Richard also wrote the "Running a Food Truck for Dummies" available in bookstores everywhere and Amazon. You can reach out to Richard by email at: [emailprotected].
