Snakeheaad Alley
A video about the snakehead situation in the Potomac river. In certain areas of the river snakeheads now are established and competing with local fish species such as local bass. Hopefully they will be kept confined to certain parts of the river and won´t spread to other parts of the country. We will just have to wait and see. in the meen time the snakehead is turning into a popular game fish luring sport fishers to the area. For more info see the almost 3 min long video.
Releasing caught snakeheads are illegal and catches should be reported to the local fish and wildlife service.
[…] Snakeheads are not a natural part of the Maryland fauna; they hail from Africa and South East Asia, and conversationalists fear that these skilled predators could disrupt native ecosystems if there were allowed to establish themselves in the U.S. Snakeheads became the centre of quite a media frenzy when they were discovered in Maryland in 2002 as the first known examples of a breeding population of wild snakeheads in the U.S. You can read more about it in our article “Environmental effects of Snakeheads”. You can see how widespread sakeheads have become in parts of the Potomac river in this video. […]
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