SandySteel
08-02-2002, 11:09 PM
This was in Maryland. God forbid this critter ever gets out in the wild around here.
The Washington Post reported, on 26 June, the invader "with the head of a snake and a gaping saw-toothed maw" to be a northern snakehead, "prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are concerned...It grows to nearly three feet, eats whatever it wants -- mostly other fish -- can live through icy winters and survives even in oxygen-deprived waters." The Post article went on to say the fish "can crawl out of the water and wiggle across land, surviving up to four days......Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins." The northern snakehead have been imported into the U.S. alive for about 30 years for Asian markets, however it is illegal to posses them in most states, except, that is, for Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia (imagine them emerging from the Potomac stalking Homeland Security officials)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ A52395-2002Jun26.html.
The Washington Post reported, on 26 June, the invader "with the head of a snake and a gaping saw-toothed maw" to be a northern snakehead, "prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are concerned...It grows to nearly three feet, eats whatever it wants -- mostly other fish -- can live through icy winters and survives even in oxygen-deprived waters." The Post article went on to say the fish "can crawl out of the water and wiggle across land, surviving up to four days......Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins." The northern snakehead have been imported into the U.S. alive for about 30 years for Asian markets, however it is illegal to posses them in most states, except, that is, for Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia (imagine them emerging from the Potomac stalking Homeland Security officials)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ A52395-2002Jun26.html.