Public invited to comment on catfish management plan

Friday, September 5, 2003

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri may never again produce a catfish like the one taken from the Missouri River near Portland in 1866. It weighed 315 pounds. Two years later, two anglers landed one near Hermann that tipped the scales at 242 pounds.

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