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.

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

The Chesapeake Bay has an overabundance of invasive blue catfish, but the region’s watermen and seafood wholesalers are missing out on a potentially huge national market for them. There are two ...

U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin visited Tilghman Island Seafood in Talbot County Friday morning — the only USDA-certified blue catfish processing facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin has announced a $250,000 grant to Sea Farms Inc. to expand blue catfish processing. It is the inaugural grant in a new program to help processors ...

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 ...