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Maryland Is Turning an Invasive Fish Problem Into School Lunch (And Kids Love It)

Maryland schools are serving invasive blue catfish as tasty lunch patties, helping protect local waterways one meal at a time.

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An invasive fish thought it was slick, rapidly increasing its population along Maryland’s eastern shores. But the dummy forgot to take something into account as it turned into an apex predator that was wiping out local fish, a problem I’ll let second-grader Ben Rochon describe while speaking to a reporter: “It’s yummy.”

According to an NPR report, the blue catfish is a massive, 100-pound Midwestern sea beast that didn’t call Virginia rivers home until the 1970s, when it was brought in for recreational........

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