White catfish (Ameiurus catus) is a freshwater, brackish species recorded in the United States.
Scientific name: Ameiurus catus · Water: Freshwater, Brackish
Size: up to 95 cm
The white catfish is a demersal ictalurid whose adults inhabit sluggish, mud-bottomed pools, open channels and backwaters of small to large rivers, as well as lakes and impoundments; it also enters brackish water. They feed on a wide variety of fishes, insects and crustaceans. Maximum length is about 95 cm total length, commonly about 30.5 cm, and it can live 14 years. It is taken in subsistence fisheries and is a gamefish. Fishing vulnerability is moderate at 43 of 100 and resilience medium. IUCN lists it as least concern.
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