The Pennsylvania record for a channel catfish is 35 pounds, 3 ounces, according to the state Fish and Boat Commission. It was caught in 1991 in the Lehigh Canal in Northampton County. Taylor’s catch ...

Baltimore’s “Catfish Rick” happily offers his abundant catches for free to local food banks and retirement facilities.

As creator of the MTV hit Catfish, Nev Schulman must be under a lot of pressure, which may be why he finally snapped and ...

Both the seemingly never-ending heat from this furnace of a summer and the low water that’s been the result of little rainfall have delayed the planned stockings of catfish by the AGFC in ponds throug ...

Prog rock, funk, disco and punk – the Seventies might just be the greatest decade in popular music. Neil McCormick picks his favourites Neil McCormick has been chief music critic for the Telegraph ...

An unusual sight along a busy Baldwin Park road created a puzzling traffic hazard. Thirty-one catfish making their way across the roadway stopped drivers in their tracks as the California Highway ...

A building in Gulfport that for more than 40 years was the home of Catfish Charlie is roaring back to life with a new restaurant. Catfish Cuevas, a Southern-style seafood spot, has opened in the ...

Thousands of blue catfish were stocked in the Ohio River on Wednesday as the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission continues efforts to restore the "long-lost" native fish to the Pittsburgh area. Blue ...

Hannah Siddle is at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia. Read the paper: Brown bullhead catfish melanoma ...

The idea that cancer could behave like a contagious disease may seem absurd; in humans, cancer cannot be transmitted from one person to another. Yet nature is still full of surprises. In exceptional ...

Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans? By Carl Zimmer For over a decade, something strange has been happening in ...

Transmissible tumours have been found in only a few types of animal, but there might be many more out there. Researchers have discovered a contagious cancer in catfish — just the fourth example of ...