The MAWS Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives amid Maryland's effort to reduce the invasive blue catfish population ...

Our Fishing Editor's guide on how to catch channel catfish in the spring, which is the best time to target channel cats.s ...

The blue catfish was never supposed to be in the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1970s, the species was introduced into the James River in Virginia as a trophy fish. From there, it quietly slipped into the Bay ...

Blue catfish may be the new specialty seafood item on menus across Maryland. The species is highly invasive in the state’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sport fishing alone can't solve the Chesapeake Bay's blue cat problem. Jay Fleming knows blue catfish eat just about anything. But ...

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 ...

With its gaping maw, a blue catfish is a voracious predator as well as a scavenger. NOAA Invasive blue catfish are a big problem in the Chesapeake Bay. Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

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 ...

A new lunch menu item in Cecil County Public Schools helps control an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay. Cecil County Public Schools staff began serving blue catfish sandwiches in mid-February.

WORKS FROM CHERRY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL IN ELKTON. I KNOW WE ALL LOVE A GOOD MARYLAND CRAB CAKE SANDWICH, BUT WHAT ABOUT A BLUE CATFISH SANDWICH? WELL, THIS IS WHAT KIDS ACROSS MARYLAND ARE GETTING ON ...