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• n  flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
• n  large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
• n  any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

• AGRICULTURE Catfish Are Jumpin' While most American farmers are suffering the effects of the worst a agricultural depression since the 1930s, the catfish farmers in Humphreys .
• After studying five mature walking catfish, Biologists Vernon Ogilvie and Robert Goodrick issued an alarming report.
• Joey Tatum runs a Mississippi-delta eatery where catfish is king--and its origin clear.

• mudcat
• wolffish
• wolf fish
• siluriform fish

News & Articles

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• Catfish Farm Is Owner's Lifetime Love
  Fishermen are flocking to a fish farm in Mesquite that also distributes thousands of catfish to lakes in Rockwall, Garland and Fort Worth. Photo Credit: NBC 5 News
  June 22, 2013 - NBC Dallas Fort Worth
• Rare giant catfish faces new threat in Southeast Asia's Mekong
  Laos' controversial Xayaburi dam could bring the Giant Catfish to extinction, as well as devastate the Mekong River's other fisheries. The challenge: How to build a dam that allows a 600-pound fish to swim up stream?
  June 22, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Catfish Season Two: Exclusive Sneak Peek
  MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show, the series that investigates online relationships in which someone has a secret, returns for a second season of fishy love on June 25 at 10 pm. (There’s also a lead-up special that premiered June 17.) Here, in a sneak peek at the Season 2 premiere episode, Cassie—who is engaged to a man she’s never met—tells host Nev Schulman about what her relationship has done for ...
  June 21, 2013 - Time Magazine

Quotes

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• Kevin McReynolds in SuperPrep.com (subscription)
  The food at the Catfish Hole was some of the best I have ever had,McReynolds said. "I really enjoyed that, too."
• Phil Garner in MLB.com
  He's one of those rare people -- and we have a couple of them here -- who has good stuff every time he goes out,manager Phil Garner said. "I've seen a few of them over the years. I think back on Catfish Hunter, Steve Carlton. Steve Rogers...
• Mike Holmgren in Seattle Times
  I just wished him well, and said next year when I'm riding my motorcycle around, I want to come down and have a little catfish with him. And just sit down in a different setting and see where he lives. That could happen,Holmgren said.