Officials devise unconventional plan to eliminate invasive fish species

Officials devise unconventional plan to eliminate invasive fish species

By Kristen Lawrence

Source: Outdoors

4/21/2024

Credit: iStock

Lawmakers in Virginia are encouraging residents to eat their way out of a blue catfish invasion that's threatening native species and entire ecosystems.

As VPM News reported, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources introduced blue catfish into several rivers in the state in the 1970s and '80s.

At the time, the DWR needed a replacement trophy fish for the coastal striped bass — which was experiencing large-scale population declines throughout the Atlantic Ocean — and thought the blue catfish would be the perfect candidate.

Catfish, Blue

Bass, Striped

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