Conservationists in Virginia worry that overfishing of menhaden is harming the Chesapeake ... other species, I think we'd all be celebrating. HAFNER: But the available data looks at the fish's ...

If you have ever been out on the Chesapeake ... outcompete the bay’s native species for food. They dine on algae, underwater grasses, insects, tadpoles, crustaceans, fish eggs and smaller ...

FISHERMEN ON THE CHESAPEAKE ... BAY. YEAH, I GOT IT. BUT THIS IS NO ORDINARY CATCH. THIS IS THE BLUE CATFISH. AN INVASIVE SPECIES THAT EATS ANYTHING IN ITS PATH. THESE ARE ACTUALLY A GAME FISH.

(WAVY) — A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay office said this ... conditions were better for fish and other species like crabs and oysters ...

Parts of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay are loaded with invasive fish species — most notably snakeheads, which were introduced illegally into Maryland waters some 20 years ago and have been vilified by ...

Hundreds of millions of the little, silvery fish ... species. While raising the coastwide catch for menhaden, the commission left its quota for the reduction fishery in the Chesapeake Bay ...

Since that time, these large, long-lived fish have expanded throughout much of the Chesapeake Bay region ... causing declines in native species by as much as 91 percent, according to the ...

People feared the big, voracious Asian fish would gobble up native ... D.C.), as well as in the upper Chesapeake Bay. The invasive species were imported legally from Asia for the aquarium ...

In Virginia, some little fish are at the center of a big, decadeslong fight. They're called menhaden. Conservationists worry that overfishing is harming the ecosystem in the Chesapeake Bay.