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 ...

Catfish guide Justin Conner of Milton, West Virgina, was fishing the Kanawha River in Putnam County on May 9 with his fiancé, Tabitha Linville. They had caught their own bait that morning for a client ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Many anglers on the James River are targeting blue catfish. But is the blue catfish population growing out of control? Some believe it is. The Virginia Department of Wildlife ...

Blue catfish are disappearing from the state’s Santee Cooper lakes, nearly 50 years after wildlife officials brought the hulking sport fish to South Carolina from the Mississippi River basin. Some ...

Jose Argueta ran his knife along the spine of a Northern snakehead, pulling the meat from the body of one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most threatening invasive fish. An inspector stood over his shoulder ...

Mike Malczewski used to make his living fishing year-round for channel catfish on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. But then one wintry day about a decade ago, he went out to retrieve his baited pots from the ...

A few years ago, when I made regular trips to the Baltimore waterfront to fish for rockfish, several people stopped to ask the same question: Are they safe to eat? My answer: “I don’t know. I’m not a ...

For decades at Lake Tawakoni, the “trophy” blue catfish season began with the first cooling north winds in October and ended with the spring warm up. Fall and winter was the designated time to go ...

PITTSBURGH ― Imagine hooking into a fish that weighs as much as 100 pounds. Imagine doing it in a Pennsylvania river. You might be able to have that experience in a few years around Pittsburgh. The ...

Chef Zack Mills has aimed for environmental balance in his craft for decades, but now with invasive blue catfish potentially threatening a Chesapeake Bay staple, blue crabs, the cook has another item ...

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 ...