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 ...

Photo Credit: iStock In Maryland, a new Chesapeake Bay giveaway is tying invasive species removal to public recreation by offering free fishing trips. The plan is meant to do two things at once: ...

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 ...

George Thompson has been a fishing and hunting guide for more than 20 years. But on Oct. 12 he decided to do a bit of fun fishing with his family instead of guiding clients. Aboard were his two sons, ...

The blue catfish was never supposed to be in the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1970s, the species was introduced into the James River in Virginia as a trophy fish. From there, it quietly slipped into the Bay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A North Carolina-based fishing rod company announced what may be a pending state-record blue catfish earlier this month. The details are thin, but Catch the Fever reports the fish, caught in Kansas, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A gargantuan blue catfish weighing nearly 120 lbs and dubbed a "monster ...