Blue catfish are invading Maryland waterways and posing a serious threat to native species. Yet, how is it that one species of slate blue-bodied fish can be so detrimental to the Chesapeake Bay ...

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 ...

The federal government denied Maryland’s request for a “fishery resource disaster” declaration amid the continued intrusion of invasive blue catfish and northern snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay, and ...

TILGHMAN, Md. - A Maryland lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to address the growing problem of blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay. Pictured above is footage from the Wicomico River. It shows a typical ...

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 ...

Annapolis, Md. - Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is enlisting the help of charter boat captains and commercial watermen in a new effort to control the growing population of invasive ...

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 ...

Blue catfish grow to large sizes, are tasty to eat and can be easily caught in the majority of Maryland’s rivers — the problem is they’re considered invasive and are a threat to other native fish and ...

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 ...

An invasive blue catfish, shown here swimming in the Bass Pro Shops aquarium in Hanover, consumes blue crabs, shad, herring, fish, mussels, seagrasses, clams and even trash in the wild. The Maryland ...