8-1-12: Fishing for Giant Blue Predators

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Blue catfish, native to the Mississippi River, grow up to 140 pounds and four-and-a-half feet long--more than twice the size of any native Chesapeake Bay catfish. Virginia game managers introduced them to local rivers in the 1970s as a sport fish, but now regret the move, because the "blue cats" are multiplying and have ravenous appetites for native fish species that are in decline.