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Voracious Fish Found in Maryland Lake
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Contributor | User 13 |
Last Edited | User 13 Apr 29, 2004 01:04pm |
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Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
News Date | Thursday, April 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Authorities plan to drain a Maryland lake after an angler caught a Northern snakehead, the same voracious nonnative fish that infested a pond only miles away in 2002.
State officials said the 19-inch fish, an Asian species that can wriggle on land for short distances and eats so many smaller fish it can destroy an ecosystem, was pulled out of Pine Lake in Wheaton Regional Park Monday afternoon.
The lake north of Washington, D.C., feeds a tributary of the Anacostia River, which empties into the Potomac River.
State biologists used electric shocks Tuesday to try to get a rise out of any other snakeheads, but none appeared. Wire mesh was placed over a pipe that leads out of the lake to prevent any others from escaping. Draining of the lake could begin as early as Thursday, officials said. |
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