Wels catfish can live for at least thirty years and have very good hearing.

Wels catfish are kept in fish ponds as food fish.

The wels catfish lives in large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers.

Following the introduction of Wels catfish are fishes whose number is in clear and rapid decline.

Recently the wels catfish has also been spotted.

Slovenia is also home to the wels catfish.

There are concerns about the ecological impact of introducing the Wels catfish to non-native regions.

This catfish is visually similar to the Wels Catfish.

The largest species in this family is Silurus glanis, the Wels Catfish.

Competition and predation by Wels catfish has caused its complete disappearance in the middle channel Ebro around 1990.

Around 1864, on temporary return to England, he introduced there species of Wels catfish and tench, both native to the Danube basin.

Silurus glanis (Wels catfish)

As part of the "Return of the autochthonous species of fish" project, wels catfish has been reintroduced into Zasavica.

Barbel species from mountain stream tributaries of the Ebro that Wels catfish have not colonized are not affected.

However, the wels catfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe, at least challenges the proceeding species in massiveness and may surpass them in length.

Scientists from Germany, Boston University and Brooklyn College studied how the fish, known as the wels catfish, tracks its prey - in this case, guppies.

Fishery is common, mainly for northern pike and common carp, but also for wels catfish, perch, roach, rudd and bleak.

Wels catfish's mouth contains lines of numerous small teeth, two long barbels on the upper jaw and four shorter barbels on the lower jaw.

Other suggestions for the predator have been a snapping turtle or a wels catfish (which are known to exist in small numbers in the Thames and its tributaries).

Ebro fish are high in mercury and the European Union prohibits the sale of Ebro river fish, notably the huge Wels catfish.

They range in size from the heaviest, the Mekong Giant Catfish to the longest, the Wels catfish found in Eurasia.

Other common freshwater fish include Catfishes (Wels catfish and less common Aristotle catfish), the Northern pike, Burbot, and others.

The wels catfish lives on annelid worms, gastropods, insects, crustaceans, and fish including other catfishes; the larger ones also eat frogs, mice, rats, and aquatic birds such as ducks.

However, such lengths are extremely rare and could not be proved during the last century, but there is a somewhat credible report from the 19th century of a wels catfish of this size.

More than 50% of the fish that live here are threatened or at least endangered in Bavaria or in this stock, such as the Wels catfish or Rutilus meidingerii.

The first historical moment of the reservoir was in the 1970s, when it was artificially seeded with sheatfish.

In the 1970s, the reservoir of the Kurdzhali Dam was artificially seeded with sheatfish.

Pterocryptis is a genus of sheatfish.

Pterocryptis buccata (Cave sheatfish)

Ceratoglanis pachynemus (Club-barbel sheatfish)

Phalacronotus apogon (Metallic sheatfish)

Kryptopterus dissitus (Indochinese Sheatfish)

Kryptopterus hesperius (Maeklong Sheatfish)

Kryptopterus limpok (Long-barbel Sheatfish)

Amur catfish, or Japanese common catfish, Silurus asotus, is a species of catfish (sheatfish), family Siluridae.

Kryptopterus cryptopterus (Blue Sheatfish) is a species of catfish, the type species of the genus Kryptopterus.

When Solomon interrogates Asmodeus further, the king learns that Asmodeus is thwarted by the angel Raphael, as well as by sheatfish found in the rivers of Assyria.

LiuWei: Physio-ecology of Northern Sheatfish Silurus Soldatovi During Early Development, PhD thesis 2010, Ocean University of China (engl.)

Two other less-than-stellar dishes were the jumbo prawns, three grilled giants that were a bit tough and judged not worth the effort needed to extract the meat from the shell, and a deep-fried whole sheatfish (imported from Thailand).