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 ...

I would say, pound for pound, it’s probably the funnest fish to fight in our bay ... more than 340 types of fish in the Chesapeake and its tributaries, and the blue catfish has apparently ...

But what type of catfish exactly? Let’s break it down ... and as far east as The Chesapeake Bay. Despite their size, blue catfish are in the same family as are the foot-long bullhead catfish ...

The Chesapeake Bay and its rivers supply a wealth of delicious seafood, including crabs, oysters and rockfish, but a predator lurking under water is threatening native species. Blue catfish don ...

Still, convincing longtime customers that they should cast lines for catfish instead of a marquee Chesapeake Bay species in the rockfish wasn’t an easy sell — though both species are ...

OKAY. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR FISHING ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. YEAH, I GOT IT. BUT THIS IS NO ORDINARY CATCH. THIS IS THE BLUE CATFISH. AN INVASIVE SPECIES THAT EATS ANYTHING IN ITS PATH.

Catch up quick: Blue catfish arrived in the Chesapeake Bay only a few ... in Virginia — but they're already in the bay's top three invasive species. Blue cats can balloon to the size of small ...

Love, who studies invasive species for a living ... grocery stores in the region are carrying it labeled as Chesapeake Bay Blue Catfish. "If there's a yellow tint, kind of a muddy flavor than ...

“The sheer number of important species that these fish are preying upon ... “We need this thing to happen now,” he said. “The Chesapeake Bay cannot wait.” (Editor’s note: Blue catfish fillets are good ...

But today the Bay is singing the blues ... also known as Chesapeake channa. Both the blue catfish and snakehead are predatory species that consume large amounts of native aquatic species and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Keisha Sedlacek is the federal director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and said blue catfish are a threat to the native species in the Bay, preying on nearly anything in ...