Local is better. The tastes of the local catfish and Egyptian catfish are very different. It can be said that the taste of the local catfish is delicious and the texture of the meat is very good. Egyptian catfish has a strong fishy taste and the meat quality is not very good. The pond mackerel is a native fish species in my country. It is delicious and nutritious, so it is very popular among people. But one of its characteristics is that it is very small, and it is very rare to weigh more than one kilogram. The Egyptian catfish, which looks very similar to the pond turtle, is very large, with some weighing more than dozens of kilograms. The Egyptian hornfish, whose scientific name is the Egyptian catfish, is also called the leather catfish and the Egyptian hornfish. It is a freshwater catfish native to the Nile River Basin in Africa.