channel catfish

An edible freshwater catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) of North America, having spots on the side and long barbels. Also called channel cat.

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chan′nel cat′fish

a freshwater food fish of the central U.S., Ictalurus punctatus.Also called chan′nel cat`.

[1830–40, Amer.]

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channel catfish - freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus

siluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

blue cat, blue catfish, blue channel cat, blue channel catfish - a large catfish of the Mississippi valley

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Fop the Books--South Dakota fishery biologists voided the state's oldest record fish, a channel catfish caught by Roy Groves in 1949, according to a press release by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP).

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"We stocked 14,993 1.5-inch Florida largemouth bass this past May; in April of 2017, we stocked 5,242 9-inch channel catfish," Don Groom, Southeast Region fisheries supervisor for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, wrote in a prepared statement.

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Catch rates of the six most captured warmwater nonnative species (fathead minnow Pimephales prometas, common carp Cyprinus carpio, channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, black bulthead Ameiurus melas, red shiner Cyprinella lutrensis, and plains killifish Fundulus zebrinus) were used to examine for immigration, reproduction of progeny, and abiotic controls of their populations in the LCR.

Abiotic Controls of Invasive Nonnative Fishes in the Little Colorado River, Arizona

Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus is one of the Mexican freshwater fishes with the highest presence in American aquaculture.

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Widely distributed throughout many FW systems of North America, the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) can also be found in brackish coastal environments (Perry 1969).

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In one study, published in Fish & Shellfish Immunology in 2016, microbiologist Miles Lange and his colleagues vaccinated channel catfish with an attenuated (weakened) wild type F.

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The river is home to at least eight native fish species, but over the years a number of invasive fish species have also taken up residence, including predatory channel catfish, red shiner, and common carp.

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Use of microbial phytase in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus diets to improve utilization of phytate phosphorus.

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Like blues, channel catfish prosper only near flowing water, increased oxygen over the eggs a mating requirement.

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Pickwick Lake also is home to striped bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, white bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish, and it's the only place I have ever fished for sauger, which is the southern cousin to the northern walleye.