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Anglers Can Help Keep Slithery Menace Out of MissouriPosted on Aug. 24, 2008 at 2:49 AM - Post Comment
Jefferson City, MO - infoZine - Some ecological threats are subtle, hardly drawing any notice except in scientific circles. Then there is the northern snakehead, an exotic invader so obviously evil it is difficult not to recoil in horror. The Northern snakehead (Channa argus) is native to northern China and Korea. Individuals arrived in North America as aquarium fish, but escaped or were released into the wild. The first known wild populations were discovered in Maryland lakes in 2002. Some live snakeheads were sold by a supermarket in Los Angeles in 2002 and 2003. The fish turned up in a tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland in 2004. On April 14 this year, a farmer discovered a northern snakehead wallowing on the banks of a drainage ditch in Lee County, Ark. He reported the sighting to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which confirmed that a breeding population of the fish existed in nearby Piney Creek. Arkansas officials quickly applied rotenone, a chemical that suffocate...
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