http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/33 The latest news from below the surface Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/33#comment-159 Snakeheads in Mattawoman Creek Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:03:17 +0000 http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/?p=33#comment-159 [...] 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. [...] […] 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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