Maryland’s natural resources department is incentivizing commercial watermen and charter boat captains to capture blue catfish in order to reduce the abundance of the invasive species in the ...

The invasive northern snakehead fish has negatively impacted other fish and the ecosystem in part of the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new study by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

A new study by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources confirms the negative impact Chesapeake Channa has on other fish ...

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Virginia have introduced a bill to eliminate restrictions on harvesting of blue catfish, an ...

The proposal advancing through the General Assembly hopes to get more blue catfish out of state waters and on to people’s ...

Atlantic menhaden weigh less than a pound and measure little more than a foot long but the small fish has big consequences ...

A critical fish species in the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic menhaden, could be declining rapidly. Or its numbers could be growing. There is no data on Atlantic menhaden populations in ...

The court ruled that it was the state the fishing entities should sue over regulations, not an interstate compact ...

It is our job as stewards of our nation’s natural resources to ensure that this species has a fighting chance to persist in ...

In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just ...

The Eastern hellbender, North America's largest salamander and Pennsylvania's state amphibian, is one step closer to ...