The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is currently accepting grant funding applications for projects that will help expand blue catfish fishing and processing in the state.

The Chesapeake Bay has an overabundance of invasive blue catfish, but the region’s watermen and seafood wholesalers are missing out on a potentially huge national market for them. There are two ...

U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin visited Tilghman Island Seafood in Talbot County Friday morning — the only USDA-certified blue catfish processing facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — to ...

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 ...

Maryland is working to control the invasive blue catfish population in its waterways, such as the Chesapeake Bay. The MAWS Act, a bipartisan bill, aims to turn invasive catfish into pet food and ...