Invasive Blue Catfish the Greatest Environmental Threat Chesapeake Bay Has Ever Faced (Opinion)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] By Tim Sughrue - March 2, 2015 -
(Tim Sughrue is V.P. Congressional Seafood, Jessup, MD)
Tim Sughrue, is on a mission to spread the word about the wild blue catfish currently threatening the health of the Chesapeake Bay. An aggressive species, the blue catfish are multiplying rapidly and eating everything in their path posing an environmental catastrophe to our local rivers and streams.
We need to harvest at least 40 million pounds annually for the forseeable future to control this infestation. If you catch 40 million pounds of blue cats, you have to sell them. That means we have to create 10 to 15 times the demand for this fish than is there now. It is grillable and has a white flaky meat that tastes fabulous. It doesn't taste like what you would expect a catfish to taste lie. It tastes like rockfish because it eats everything a rockfish eats, including rockfish.
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