A total of $1 million will be given to a Caroline County-based seafood company to increase the amount of invasive blue ...
A bill aimed at reducing the population of invasive blue catfish by promoting its use in pet food products overwhelmingly ...
Fresh off a $1M USDA award, BSA Seafood supports MAWS Act goals but wants Senate guardrails so pet-food demand doesn’t ...
A new federal pilot program could help remove millions of pounds of invasive blue catfish from local waterways while creating ...
Invasive blue catfish are a growing problem for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem; the U.S. House has passed a bill to encourage the use of Chesapeake blue catfish as pet and animal food.
Two Maryland seafood processors said there’s a delicate balancing act in controlling invasive species like blue catfish, and ...
The blue catfish is an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay, and there is a multi-state effort to get those fish out of the bay and instead put adding to pet food.
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks have announced one million dollars in funding for BSA Seafood LLC in Carline County to process invasive Blue Catfish harvested from the Chesapeake ...
The catfish is a threat to native species which could disrupt natural habitats in the Bay.
A bipartisan bill aimed at tackling the growing problem of invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay has passed the U.S.
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House Passes MAWS Act to Fight Bay's Blue Catfish Invasion

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Mitigation Action and Watermen Support (MAWS) Act (H.R. 4294), known as the MAWS Act of 2026, on March 16, 2026, advancing a bipartisan initiative to ...