Alessandro Biancardi, an Italian angler, pulled an enormous, 9.4-foot-long (2.85 meters) catfish from the shallow waters of the River Po in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.The catch beats ...

They range from tiny, like pencil catfish (Trichomycteridae), which are less than an inch long, to the wels catfish (Silurus glanis), which weigh 44 pounds on average, though larger specimens ...