Flathead catfish are rapidly reshaping the Susquehanna River’s ecosystem. Once introduced, these voracious predators climbed to the top of the food chain, forcing native fish like channel catfish and ...

Flathead catfish—native to the Mississippi River basin—were first detected in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania in 2002, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. In the two decades since then, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big flathead catfish on a boat in Arizona So, you want to catch a big flathead catfish. That's a laudable goal. These brutes ...

Flathead catfish are native to a large area west of the Appalachian Mountains. Flathead catfish are hard to ignore. They have shiny dark olive skin with a white to the yellow underside. Interestingly, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brandi Holt, of Homedale, holds the 44-inch flathead catfish she caught on the Snake River. The fish set a state catch-and-release ...

In less than 25 years, an invasive fish has become the apex predator of the Susquehanna River in eastern Pennsylvania. Flathead catfish have been flourishing in the river since 2002, growing to 30 to ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that one of the biggest flathead catfish ever recorded in the state had been caught on a trotline. In the accompanying photo, ...

Flathead catfish, once strangers to the Susquehanna River, have become unstoppable invaders since their arrival in 2002. Growing up to 70 pounds and over four feet long, they now dominate the food ...

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To determine what the flathead catfish were eating, researchers collected 576 of them over two years, with 241 individuals having recoverable stomach contents. The researchers extracted DNA from those ...