Applications Now Open for Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grants
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) is currently accepting grant funding applications for projects that will help expand the commercial fishing and processing of blue catfish in the Commonwealth. Applications for the Governor's Blue Catfish Processing, Flash Freezing, and Infrastructure Grant Program will be accepted today through Oct. 31, 2025.
Introduced several decades ago as a recreational trophy fish, blue catfish is an invasive species and aggressive predator that has been documented in the Chesapeake Bay and all its Virginia...
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