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Subcommittee backs pilot program to use invasive blue catfish for pet food under bipartisan MAWS Act
Summary
Representatives Elfreth and Whitman introduced the MAWS Act (H.R. 4,294), a bipartisan bill to fund a NOAA pilot program that would create markets for invasive blue catfish to reduce their ecological impacts in the Chesapeake Bay.
Representative Elfreth and co-sponsors introduced H.R. 4,294, the Mitigation Action and Waterman Support (MAWS) Act, to address the ecological and economic harm from invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay.
Elfreth told the subcommittee that blue catfish are now abundant in many tributaries of the Bay, prey on blue crabs, oysters and juvenile rockfish, and lack natural…
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