Local lawmakers have proposed the Mitigation Action and Watermen Support Act to curb invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake ...

An angler has described his surprise after reeling in a Wels catfish from a Berkshire fishing lake. Anthony Gee was fishing at Dinton Pastures Country Park in Wokingham when he caught the invasive ...

An angler has described his surprise after reeling in a Wels catfish from a Berkshire fishing lake. Anthony Gee was fishing at Dinton Pastures Country Park in Wokingham when he caught the invasive ...

Recently, a pending world record for the longest catfish was caught in Italy’s River Po. This fish measured 9 feet, 4 inches long (285 cm)! It is called a Wels catfish and they can be found ...

This is the dramatic moment an angler caught a massive catfish - that dragged him off his feet. The youngster was fishing with a friend when he felt a strong tug on his rod in the River Maine next ...

Records for catfish were paused in 2000 in an effort to stop illegal importation of large catfish, particularly non-native species like the Wels catfish, the Telegraph reported.

Chigboro Farm & Fisheries, which operates the lake where the Wels catfish was caught, said it weighed 143 pounds, likely the largest ever caught in the United Kingdom, according to a Facebook post.

Records for catfish were paused in 2000 in an effort to stop illegal importation of large catfish, particularly non-native species like the Wels catfish, the Telegraph reported.