The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is currently accepting grant funding applications for projects that will help expand blue catfish fishing and processing in the state.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WFXR) — If you can’t beat them, eat them! When it comes to blue catfish management, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) fisheries biologists are hoping for a little help ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is accepting grant funding applications for a program designed to address the growing population of an ...

Maryland recently has taken a few tentative steps aimed at boosting commercial harvest of blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), the voracious nonnative predator devouring blue crabs and many native fish ...

Not long ago, people worried that a giant, gape-mouthed predator called the blue catfish would take over the James River. We are so beyond that. Now the invader fish, which can top 100 pounds and eats ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va. (KDKA) — A woman caught a blue catfish that was more than 4 feet long and weighed over 64 pounds, breaking West Virginia's state length record. Kimberly Feltner of Madison, Indiana, ...