Try This Blue Catfish Recipe to Help the Chesapeake Bay

Try This Blue Catfish Recipe to Help the Chesapeake Bay

Source: Associated Press

4/16/2023

Chef Zack Mills has aimed for environmental balance in his craft for decades, but now with invasive blue catfish potentially threatening a Chesapeake Bay staple, blue crabs, the cook has another item on his menu.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been trying my best to focus on only cooking with sustainable products,” said Mills, executive chef at the Baltimore-based True Chesapeake Oyster Company, in a phone interview. As for the whiskered water giant, which has been served since Mills’ restaurant opened four years ago, he said: “I should be promoting pulling as many of these out of the water as possible.”