House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, may want to wait until after the Nov. 8 election, when the House of Representatives returns for the lame-duck session, to decide whether there will be a vote on the ...

A group of United States senators have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to purchase more catfish, claiming ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, the catfish industry rebounded with a new stocking strategy known as a multiple batch stocking system, he said. In this system fingerling catfish stocking is staggered throughout the ...

At L.D. Amory & Co., in Hampton, amid the usual warehouse bustle and fishy ambiance, bins of blue catfish — swathed in ice — await their fate. In the processing room, a cutter fillets the moist and ...

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.