Wylie or the Catawba River?
It is unknown whether the two northern snakehead reportedly caught from Lake Wylie in 2002 and the one from the Catawba River in May were part of a larger group of northern snakehead or if they are reproducing. No snakehead species has ever appeared in routine fish surveys conducted by fisheries biologists with Duke Power and the Commission. That doesn’t mean snakeheads aren’t in Lake Wylie or the Catawba River. It only means that fisheries biologists haven’t detected snakeheads in Lake Wylie or the Catawba River to date. Q.
