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A Guide to Search Results for "Snakehead Fish" help - feedback - sponsor this guide
Virtually everyone who uses the search term "snakehead fish" is looking for
information about the fish species channa striatus, commonly known as "northern
snakehead". Northern snakehead are native to the Indo-Pacific area with twenty
five other snakehead species found from the Amur across China, Indonesia, Burma,
western India, Sri Lanka and into the tropical areas of Africa. The fish are considered
a delicacy throughout Asia. However, snakehead fish first became newsworthy when
Maryland state health officials found a colony of 99 northern snakehead fish living in a
pond near the Little Patuxent River. The colony developed after a Maryland pet owner
who owned two of the fish decided that he didn't want them anymore and dumped them. The
presence of snakehead fish has the potential to cause ecological damage in waters where
the species is not indigenous, but this threat is grossly disproportional to the
sensationalized coverage that the species has received in the press, with news reports
focusing on the fact that snakehead fish can walk on dry land and purportedly last
for as long as three days out of water. Sponsored Link:
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