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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:18 PM
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I've never heard of a "snakehead" fish. Have you?


This photo, taken from the Maryland Department of National Resources (MDDNR) website shows the airbreathing, landwalking snakehead fish. A man in Los Angeles was arrested for allegedly selling a live snakehead fish.(AFP/HO-MDDNR/File)

Apparently, one was caught over the weekend in the Potomac River.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040517/ap_on_he_me/snakehead_invasion_1
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:20 PM
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1. this has been big news in the east for over a year now
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:21 PM
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2. Don't you remember last year?
They had to poison and/or drain a couple of ponds to get rid of them. They're nasty critters - they can "walk" from one pond to another.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 04:00 PM
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18. Yup--it was a pretty big story.
They naively thought that it was contained to one small Maryland pond. If only... :-(
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:21 PM
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3. Bad news for native fish
The snakeheads are yet another invasive species. These guys will eat up all the natives from your pond and then walk on over to feast at the neighbors'.
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:22 PM
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4. but that's the first one found carrying money... could be a bad sign
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:26 PM
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7. maybe it was looking for a hooker to try his line out on
:P
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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:26 PM
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9. Why It Walks
It walks because it doesn't have change for the farebox.
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:23 PM
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5. The Daily Show did a hysterical bit on the snake head last year
Saying they were bringing in paranas to get rid of the snakeheads, then I forget what to get rid of the paranas, and so on and so until they decided they had to use nepalm to get rid of everything.

Ok, it doesn't sound that funny, but it was.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:23 PM
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6. what an ugly fish
Somehow though, i bet if this fish was cute it wouldn't be considered a menace.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:27 PM
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10. Sweet, good-natured Jason
always looking at the bright side :D

:hi:
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:26 PM
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8. Many Asian countries consider them to be very tasty.
I remember a story about how in Korea (?) they found our problem with the growing snakehead population to be quite amusing. "Why don't they just eat them, like we do?"
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Southpaw Bookworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:13 PM
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16. That's how they got here to begin with
You could mail-order these fishies to be overnighted from Asia, live. (They can live out of water for a certain time period.) Apparently some guy decided on something else for dinner and dumped one in a creek, where it proceeded to eat the other, native residents.

They've found a couple in the Potomac and its tributaries, which is a shitload of a problem if they've bred. Kiss those crabcakes goodbye.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:27 PM
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11. They Terrorize Us in Maryland...
at least in the headlines. Big water cooler topic.
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:29 PM
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12. wait'll one turns up in that cooler
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Claire Beth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:33 PM
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13. until just recently, I had not heard of one... n/t
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:49 PM
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14. i'll show you a picture of a snakehead
:*
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:58 PM
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15. I DARE ya to post a pic!!!!!!
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:29 PM
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17. aw hell.... I'll do it:
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 04:01 PM
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19. I was going to say "NO SEX THREADS"
but you beat me to the punch. :P
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dpt223 Donating Member (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 04:04 PM
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20. yes
They are an invasive species from Asia that could royally fuck up the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
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