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Newly proposed legislation aims to pay seafood processors and pet food makers to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay by using an ...
Local lawmakers have proposed the Mitigation Action and Watermen Support Act to curb invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake ...
The Chesapeake Bay has a lot of blue catfish, and that's a problem. Now lawmakers have a plan, to see if the invasive fish ...
Multiple Congressional Representatives from Maryland and Virginia have joined forces to introduce a unique federal response ...
The invasive species’ hefty appetites are damaging the bay’s ecosystem. There could be as many as 100 million catfish in the Chesapeake Bay.
Blue catfish are not the only invasive fish species threatening the Chesapeake Bay — this summer, a team of dam technicians prevented 3,000 invasive fish (mainly northern snakeheads) from ...
Blue catfish are wreaking havoc on native species in the Chesapeake Bay. To reduce the damage, environmentalists want to encourage more restaurants to add the whiskered predator to their menus.
Seafood processors say federal rules on handling blue catfish hamper efforts to remove the invasive species from the Chesapeake Bay.
The blue catfish is endangering the blue crab population and threatening other species native to the Chesapeake Bay.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration categorize blue catfish are considered an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay. They were introduced in several rivers on Virginia’s ...
Invasive axis deer have become a widespread problem, even in the state of Hawaii. Authorities are attempting to mitigate the ...
Today the Chesapeake Bay is singing the blues because the blue crab now faces a mounting threat in the form of the blue catfish, a large, fast-moving predator that pretty much will eat just about ...