The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced an $8 million initiative to control the spread of invasive blue ...

The USDA is making $6 million in grants available for seafood processors. This funding aims to expand operations and ...

In the video, the poster (@UncleFishin) explains that he's in Washington, D.C., fishing for invasive blue catfish. He catches a large fish, then shows his audience step by step how to prepare it ...

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 ...

Blue catfish are wreaking havoc on native species in the Chesapeake Bay. To reduce the damage, environmentalists want to encourage more restaurants to add the whiskered predator to their menus.

And indeed, harvest numbers are growing year over year. In the Potomac River and Maryland waters, commercial blue catfish harvest jumped from 609,525 pounds in 2013 to 4.2 million pounds in 2023, an ...

The blue catfish weight record remains with Michael John Drake, who caught a 69.45-pound, 50.51-inch fish on the Ohio River in 2023, the release said.

On May 9, Justin Conner, of Milton pulled a 51.49 inch blue catfish our of the Kanawha River in Putnam County using a mooneye on 80 pound test line. While the monster catfish weighed more than 66 ...

Smith has been looking at the success rates of blue catfish in Kentucky’s portion of the Ohio River and said it takes 17 years for one of them to reach about 35 inches long, possibly weighing 30 ...