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.
Although a 280-pound catfish is an impressive catch any day of the week, the current record for a catfish ever caught goes to a gentlemen who pulled in a roughly 342-pound lau-lau or piraiba catfish in 2009. The largest catfish on record nearly eight feet and nine inches and weighed nearly 646 pounds! The Amazon river is home to a variety of unusual fish and âriver monsters.â Itâs very possible that the largest catfish known to the world has yet to be caught.