Even normal-sized blue catfish, or Ictalurus furcatus, are big fish. Originally native to the basins of the Mississippi, ...

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A seafood program with roots on the West Coast is expanding into the Mid-Atlantic, with a mission that tackles two challenges ...

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 ...

The James River delivered in a big way! Hooking into giant blue catfish one after another, I ended up landing my biggest one yet—a new personal best! The fight was brutal, the runs were long, and the ...

When New Kent fishermen Chris Von Hatten and Christopher Whitmire go out on the Pamunkey River in the early hours of the morning, they hope to catch 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of blue catfish by midday.

A West Coast seafood program is expanding to the East Coast to help tackle the Chesapeake Bay’s Blue Catfish Crisis. Seafood company Real Good Fish announced Monday its Bay2Tray program will come to ...

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 ...

Kadence Oliver of Chandler loves the big bite, especially when a whiskered fish with a weight problem chomps down on a hapless live perch scrambling for its life. A nasty scuffle always follows once ...