RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin has announced a $250 thousand grant to Sea Farms Inc. to expand blue catfish processing. It is the inaugural grant in a new program to help ...
KONNER METZ [email protected] Aug 6, 2025 Aug 6, 2025 TILGHMAN ISLAND — Nick Hargrove's business has operated as the Eastern Shore's only blue catfish processing facility for more than two years, ...
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 ...
Amory Seafood, a seafood processor and distributor based in the US city of Hampton, Virginia, has received a big boost from its state government to help it increase its capacity for handling blue ...
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 ...