U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action ...

TILGHMAN ISLAND, Maryland (WBAL) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted $6 million to Maryland seafood processors to clear the Chesapeake Bay from invasive blue catfish. U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R ...

Congressman Andy Harris and Secretary Brooke Rollins of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a $6 million grant program Wednesday to combat invasive, wild-caught blue catfish in the ...

With its gaping maw, a blue catfish is a voracious predator as well as a scavenger. NOAA Invasive blue catfish are a big problem in the Chesapeake Bay. Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

With a provision tucked into the 2008 Farm Bill, Congress shifted authority for catfish inspections from the Food and Drug Administration to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, arguing that the public ...

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 ...