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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue catfish are invading Maryland waterways and posing a serious threat to native species. Yet, how is it that one species of ...

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 federal government denied Maryland’s request for a “fishery resource disaster” declaration amid the continued intrusion of invasive blue catfish and northern snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

TILGHMAN, Md. - A Maryland lawmaker is sponsoring a bill to address the growing problem of blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay. Pictured above is footage from the Wicomico River. It shows a typical ...

Annapolis, Md. - Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is enlisting the help of charter boat captains and commercial watermen in a new effort to control the growing population of invasive ...

Blue catfish grow to large sizes, are tasty to eat and can be easily caught in the majority of Maryland’s rivers — the problem is they’re considered invasive and are a threat to other native fish and ...