Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Beware!


Fishermen, watch your backs! Because popping up in lakes and rivers all over the united states is the giant snakehead! These monsters are such a problam because they are predetory beyond imagination, eating smaller fish, decreasing they're numbers and lowering the food supply for larger species. Native to thailand and other areas of southeast asia, they are considared a delecacy and up until recently have been sold live at many asian supermarkets and are capible of surviving out of the water for at least eight hours, some are still being smuggled into the country as you are reading this, some have escaped captivity and some pet owners have dumped snakeheads they can no longer keep into American waters, in fact one was recently cought in the lake Michigan in Chicago. If somehow, you catch a snakehead you must kill it and contact your local DNR office immediatly. Be extreamly careful when unhooking these things, they have teeth like demons and are responsible for some bloody attacks in thailand. Note that you may find out that your possable snakehead catch is actually a bowfin, a native fish often mistaken for a snakehead.

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