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 ...

As the owner of his own fishing charter business specializing in large trophy catfishing expeditions, George Thompson is used to reeling in some big creatures. In October, when the Nebraska native was ...

Blue catfish are hungry creatures. They are found in most Chesapeake Bay tributaries, gobbling up species that environmentalists have worked to rebuild for years. From mussels and menhaden to oysters ...

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 ...

State officials introduced blue catfish in the 1970s to jumpstart a recreational fishery. Now they’re building a commercial ...

Anglers in the Pittsburgh area may be catching 50-to 60-pound blue catfish several years from now as part of an ongoing reintroduction effort of this native species of fish. The Pennsylvania Fish and ...

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 ...

Around 10,000 blue catfish were recently added to Pittsburgh's Three Rivers as part of a restoration project. Blue catfish, native to the area but eradicated by pollution, can grow to over 70 pounds.

Chef Scott Harrison of Boatyard Bar & Grill in Annapolis, Md., has taken on a dual mission in recent years: aid in restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by elevating the invasive blue catfish as a ...

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 ...

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