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INVASIVE SPECIES ON SCHOOL MENUS

The Chesapeake Bay, home to blue crabs, striped bass, and other popular seafood, has a new apex predator, the blue catfish. It's invasive and ravenous, growing to more than 100 pounds. But officials hope one of the fish's other qualities might keep it in check: it's delicious.

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Bill Chappell is a writer and editor on the News Desk in the heart of NPR's newsroom in Washington, D.C.