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.

If you’re a seasoned crabber or thinking of trying your hand at it, here are some things to know from the Maryland Department ...

Fallout from a controversial decision in Virginia to lift a 15-year ban on harvesting blue crabs in the ... by the two states. The Chesapeake Bay provides 30% of the crab caught in the U.S ...

A proposal to keep diamondback terrapins from drowning when trapped in Chesapeake Bay crab pots is sparking angry objections from watermen.

Proposed limits on the commercial harvest of blue crabs faces critics who say the management plan amendment is based on a ...

SO THIS IS ONE OF THE DERELICT, DERELICT CRAB POTS THAT WE WOULD RETRIEVE ... THEY GO OUT AND SIDE SCAN THE BOTTOM OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. SO WE ACTUALLY USE SOME OF THEIR DATA, THEIR SIDE SCAN ...

Keisha Sedlacek is the federal director for the Chesapeake ... "Blue catfish are fast-growing and voracious predators eating almost anything including native species like oysters, blue crabs ...

Some people view blue catfish as bottom ... 40 crabs in the belly at one time. So how many times a day are they doing that?” Blue catfish, unlike most other Chesapeake Bay seafood catches ...