Huge blue catfish

Meet one of the Tennessee Aquarium’s huge, blue catfish. There are 38 known species of catfish in the United States, 22 are found in Tennessee. The largest of the 22 species and the largest in all of North America is the blue catfish. The largest size ever reported (conjectural) was 315 lbs. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries commercial fishermen were routinely catching and removing blues in the neighborhood of 200 lbs. Ichthyologists today feel, due to the overfishing of the giant blue catfish,