The gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus) is a marine catfish that is found from Panama to Cape Cod. In the U.S., it is most often caught in the Southeast and Gulf states.

Both marine catfish species have a late spring spawn. The sail cat female will lay 50-60 eggs resembling small green grapes. The male will then gather the eggs in their large mouth until they ...

The gafftopsail catfish is palatable, but ranks low on the edibility scale when compared with other species like flounder, pompano, seatrout, snook, redfish, grouper, snapper, kingfish and Spanish ...

Both the hardhead and gafftopsail catfish are mouthbrooders. Mouth brooding may sound like a synonym for pouting, but it in fact refers to the practice of protecting offspring by storing them in ...

Old salts agree the sea catfish is at the bottom of the pecking order. This disdain carries even to scientific circles. Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, by H. Dickson Hoese and Richard H. Moore, says ...

At the July Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting, LGL Ecological Research Associates presented the results of ...

Nature gave the gafftopsail catfish a unique characteristic that distinguishes it from others of the family: a long, flowing (almost shark-like) dorsal fin. And the saltwater fish has another odd ...

The state’s marine catfish — hardhead and gafftopsail — have only three sets of barbels, none on their nostrils. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad ...

Mike "Capt. T-Bone" Thompson's tall tale of fishing for gafftopsail catfish in the Carnival Triumph's soiled wake as the bedeviled cruise ship made its way up Mobile Bay was judged the best lie ...