Fishing News
Search continues for predatory fish in Crofton pond
By Candus Thomson
Dumping poison in a Crofton pond may be the best way to prevent a highly predatory exotic fish from escaping into nearby waterways, one of the country's leading experts said yesterday.
Walter Courtenay, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey in Florida, said most other options being considered can't ensure the eradication of the northern snakehead.
"It comes down to protecting fishing at an 8- to 9-acre recreational pond or preventing a snakehead ... from getting loose and reproducing," he said.
Last month, an angler caught an 18-inch snakehead -- a torpedo-shaped native of the Yangtze River region in China -- and tossed it back into the pond, sandwiched between Route 3 and the Little Patuxent River.
Federal experts reviewing a snapshot by the angler identified the fish last week, touching off a scramble by the state to corral it. A snakehead eats every other fish in sight, can live three days out of water and can walk short distances on extended fins to another body of water.
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