Some small catfish are known to climb waterfalls, like the bumblebee catfish seen in the Paraguay River in Brazil. First ...

Put more catfish in the net by dialing in their eating habits. If you're wondering what catfish eat, the answer is just about anything. These fish are opportunists that feast on a wide array of food ...

Scientists at Auburn University injected alligator DNA into farm-raised catfish. The scientists found that the fish were more resistant to disease and less likely to reproduce. They hope the new and ...

Catfish are popular among North American anglers, but they can also be found all around the world, with two of the largest species—the Wels and the Giant Mekong—inhabiting waters in Europe and ...

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The saying applies to a lot of things, but it’s especially true when talking about how to cook catfish, specifically Southern catfish cooking. I’m not suggesting that ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2016, biologists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service came to a terrible realization: The Yaqui catfish, the only catfish species native to the Western United States, was on the cusp ...

Shortly before 7:45 a.m., the slaughterhouse workers trudged inside the nondescript building at the end of a dirt road and headed to what they called the "kill floor." There, when no one was looking, ...

FISHERMEN ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY SAY THEY STARTED CATCHING BLUE CATFISH ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO AND NOW THEY’RE BECOMING A BIG PART OF THE SOLUTION. OKAY. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR FISHING ON THE ...

A South Carolina teen got more than he expected when he went out fishing for catfish for this first time. Logan Overholt, age 13, from Abbeyville, was staying with his grandparents while some of his ...

In 50-some years of catfishing and writing about catfishing, I’ve often fielded the question, “What do catfish eat?” The short answers is, whatever they can fit into their mouths, including aquatic ...