Subject: Re: Life expectency of a catfish

From: [email-masked] (Edoardo)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:06:13 GMT

Hi Lei,

That's a good question, the problem is that "Catfish" is a generic
name, there are many species of Catfishes.

I can help you only with African catfishes and European ones.

About Italy there is "Ictalurus melas" (Imported from north America)
and it usually lives about 4-5 years but sometimes also 8-9 years.
You can determinate the age of the fish making a section of pectoral
fins.

On 18 Jul 1996 23:25:40 GMT, [email-masked] (Lei-Shine Pi) wrote:
>Can anyone please tell me how long can a catfish live?

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From: Christopher Blouin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:06:58 -0700

Lei-Shine Pi wrote:
> Thanks in advance.
> Lei-ShineThis may sound like a cop out but when I was in school, I used to dissect 
the ear bones of fish so the grad I was working for could count the 
growth rings (hence age) of the fish.
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