ARE CHINESE “WALKING CATFISH” POSITIONED TO INVADE D.C.?
WASHINGTON D.C., BALTIMORE>> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on July 26, 2002 proposed a permanent rule against the importation and interstate transport of and species of snakeheads, also known as “walking catfish.” A scientific panel on the same day advised Maryland Department of Natural Resources secretary J. Charles Fox to authorize exterminating a small local snakehead population immediately, even at cost of killing their whole habitat. The recommended strategy would begin with using the herbicide glyphosate, better known under the brand name Roundup, to kill all vegetation in the pond where the snakeheads were discovered. The water would then be poisoned with rotenone. Maryland Department of Natural Resources staff pulled about 100 juvenile snakeheads of a variety native to the Yangtse River in China out of the pond within a week of the first confirmed report of their presence, about a year after a local fish hobbyist released several snakeheads there who had outgrown his tank.
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- ARE CHINESE "WALKING CATFISH" POSITIONED TO INVADE D.C.?
