WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $6 million in grant funding aimed at bolstering seafood processing infrastructure to combat the spread of invasive blue catfish in ...

The USDA is providing $6 million in grants to help Maryland seafood processors expand operations and create new markets for invasive blue catfish. A one-year pilot program will purchase up to $2 ...

LITTLE ROCK — A Pulaski County Circuit Court jury found late Friday that no interference, fraud or conspiracy was involved in the 2001 financing of a Lake Village catfish processing plant that ...

WASHINGTON — Maryland is about to start eating a lot more catfish if the U.S. Department of Agriculture gets its way. New funding will help seafood companies to fish invasive blue catfish from the ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is currently accepting applications for grant funding ...

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 ...

Blue catfish are hungry creatures. They are found in most Chesapeake Bay tributaries, gobbling up species that environmentalists have worked to rebuild for years. From mussels and menhaden to oysters ...

The blue catfish was never supposed to be here. In the 1970s, the species was introduced into the James River in Virginia as a trophy fish. From there, it quietly slipped into the Chesapeake Bay ...