Jay Fleming knows blue catfish eat just about anything. But it wasn’t until recently, when he visited a fish processing plant in Maryland and started slicing into their bellies, that he fully realized ...

The USDA is providing $6 million in grants to help Maryland seafood processors expand operations and create new markets for invasive blue catfish. A one-year pilot program will purchase up to $2 ...

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Lena Sawyers, a biologist at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, holds a flathead catfish captured during an electrofishing demonstration on the Potomac River on Sept. 10. (Photo by ...

Maryland recently has taken a few tentative steps aimed at boosting commercial harvest of blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), the voracious nonnative predator devouring blue crabs and many native fish ...

In many of America's freshwater regions blue catfish are held in pretty high esteem. They grow fast, are plenty strong when hooked, and top out at triple-digit weights. They're not hard to catch, and ...

Invasive species like the blue catfish and snakehead are threatening ecosystems across Maryland’s waters. Chefs say that if we can’t beat ’em, we should eat ’em. These species vary considerably from ...

If you drained the whole Chesapeake Bay most times during the year and weighed every fish, at least 70% would be blue catfish, scientists estimate. Aggressive catfish that can weigh over 100 pounds ...

Sport fishing alone can't solve the Chesapeake Bay's blue cat problem. Jay Fleming knows blue catfish eat just about anything. But it wasn’t until recently, when he visited a fish processing plant in ...