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.

U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin visited Tilghman Island Seafood in Talbot County Friday morning — the only USDA-certified blue catfish processing facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is accepting grant funding applications for a program designed to address the growing population of an ...

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 ...

The prospect of the Chesapeake Bay surviving and thriving is regularly threatened by events that negatively impact its ecology.

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 ...

Inaugural funding of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program has awarded $250,000 to Sea Farms Inc. Funding ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Armory Seafood has been awarded $247,000 through the Governor’s Blue Catfish Processing, Flash freezing and Infrastructure grant. The funds will be used to increase processing ...