And indeed, harvest numbers are growing year over year. In the Potomac River and Maryland waters, commercial blue catfish harvest jumped from 609,525 pounds in 2013 to 4.2 million pounds in 2023, an ...

A hot and still afternoon on the Potomac River yielded equally hot fishing. Blue catfish, an introduced invasive fish, were easily caught with fishing guide Anthony Cubbage and Atomic Fishing ...

Aside from their distinctive whiskers, blue catfish have a few other peculiar qualities. They don’t have scales; ... Potomac River catfish are no match for Ernie the Hog Snatcher.

Maryland DNR biologists Branson Williams and Tim Groves haul in an enormous blue catfish caught with electrofishing gear in the Potomac River in 2014. A commercial electrofishing operation plies ...

Bridger Willems with a 32 pound blue catfish from the Potomac River. (Submitted photo) During the same time some 18,000 pounds of invasive fish were removed from the lift this year and donated to ...

FORT WASHINGTON, Md. — Seafood lovers enjoying the traditional summer Chesapeake crab feast have suffered remarkable sticker shock this year with prices as high as $90 to $100 a dozen for crabs ...

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Gov. Wes Moore has more to worry about than just crime, education and the economy. There's also catfish.

Stanley "Sebby" Brock III poses with an enormous catfish found in the Potomac River near the Chain Bridge (courtesy of Stan Brock) A 20-year-old Arlington man out fishing near the Chain Bridge ...

These catfish spread like wildfire all throughout the Chesapeake watershed. They quickly adapted to the different environments in the Potomac River and started to negatively impact the native fish ...

The invasive species in question is the blue catfish, a species so large it has become known as the "River Monster of the Potomac " and other major Chesapeake Bay tributaries. The catfish's diet ...