The second macroeconomic consideration of increased imports is the impact on exchange rates. As we have shown in the previous section, as U.S. consumers increase their consumption of imports, the supply of dollars in foreign exchange markets rises.
A member of the Ictalurus genus of American catfishes, channel catfish have a top-end size of about 40â50 pounds (18â23 kg). The world record channel catfish weighed 58 pounds, and was taken from the Santee-Cooper Reservoir in South Carolina, on July 7, 1964. Realistically, a channel catfish over 20 lb (9 kg) is a spectacular specimen, and most catfish anglers view a 10-lb (4.5-kg) fish as a very admirable catch.
2011, Record breaking Blue cat: Biggest catfish ever caught in America. On Saturday night Fathers day weekend a North Carolina man, Nick Anderson, a high school football coach from Geenville NC, caught a new world record blue cat in the John H. Kerr-Buggs Island Lake near Clarksville Va. (certification still pending) The fish weighed in at 143 pounds, 13 pounds over the previous record.