Fishing News
One that got away - Chinese walking fish turns up in Maryland
By Ken Ringle
WASHINGTON -- As if global warming, Islamic terrorism and Britney Spears' midriff weren't enough to worry about, we have received, wafting in from suburban Crofton, Md., reports of snakehead fish marching on Washington.
They could be just another special-interest group seeking legislative preference, but it appears more may be at stake here: something like killer bees that swim.
As usual, we need more data.
The ambulatory fish in question (tentatively identified as Channa argus argus) appear to be based in a pond behind a shopping center in Anne Arundel County, where they presumably immigrated by unknown means from their native China. It is not known how long they have been in Crofton, but so far two have been caught, one 19 inches long and one 26 inches.
Since the snakehead fish is extremely aggressive, is indiscriminate in its dining habits and reportedly grows to 40 inches and 15 pounds, one might surmise it has yet to exhaust its food supply in greater Crofton. If it had, instead of inhaling hooked minnows hung from the poles of 12-year-old bounty anglers, it would be hiking down Route 3 toward Bowie.
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