Gov. Wes Moore signed new legislation this year that allows the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to explore using ...

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

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Maryland have voted to pass legislation expanding its blue catfish pilot program, which was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue catfish are hungry creatures. They are found in most Chesapeake Bay tributaries, gobbling up species that environmentalists ...

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers are trying to combat the growing population of blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay by passing an emergency bill that aims to protect the waterways from the invasive fish.

In a bid to knock back one of the Chesapeake Bay's hungriest invaders, Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis this week signed off on an emergency plan that lets licensed watermen use small-mesh gill nets to ...

A close up of the head and front half of a medium size silver white blue catfish fish being held horizontally by a in a gloved hand on a sunny day© M Huston/Shutterstock.com Blue catfish may be the ...

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

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 ...

A 15-year-old Missourian caught the fish of his dreams during a mid-August outing on the Missouri River with his father, boating a 108-pound blue catfish that some say is the second largest ever ...