Sun coverage: Snakeheads in Md.
Full coverage of the "Frankenfish" caught in Crofton and the Potomac River.
'Frankenfish' multiplying in Potomac system
MOUNT VERNON, Va. // Tina McCrobie yelped. She'd no sooner stuck an electric probe in the water than four snakeheads floated belly-up to the surface of the Dogue Creek. Full story...
Potomac snakeheads not related to others
COLLEGE PARK -- Genetic tests show northern snakehead fish found last year in the Potomac River are not related to those found in other waters in the region, suggesting that the alien fish that can move short distances across land has not spread on its own. Full story...
Critics of proposed ban on snakeheads speak out
Maryland pet store operators and at least one admitted snakehead owner criticized a state-proposed ban on possessing the invasive fish yesterday, saying the regulation is too broad and would force responsible people to part with pets they've raised and nurtured. Full story...
DNA test set for fish caught in Potomac
Researchers at the Smithsonian Institution plan to test the DNA of five snakeheads found in the Potomac River to see if they were spawned by the same fish as the Crofton snakeheads discovered two years ago. Full story...
Fourth snakehead is caught in Potomac in Va.
A fisherman has caught another northern snakehead fish in the Potomac River in Virginia, state officials announced yesterday, marking the fourth time this spring that the voracious Asian invader has turned up in the river. Full story...
Warnings to be posted about snakehead fish
State officials plan to announce today that they're posting emergency northern snakehead fish warning signs along the Potomac River after a fisherman caught one of the toothy fish this week. Full story...
Sun Q&A
Dennis O'Brien on northern snakeheads
Glenn, Jessup: Do you think the gentleman that caught the fish is pulling a hoax? I do. Full story...
Drained Wheaton lake holds no signs of snakeheads
Pine Lake in Wheaton Regional Park in Montgomery County began slowly refilling with water yesterday after state officials who had drained it in search of northern snakeheads discovered no trace of the vicious Asian fish. Full story...
Predator fish ban proposed by state
Maryland natural resources officials proposed a ban on ownership of northern snakeheads yesterday. Full story...
A crusade to stop the voracious fish
Montgomery County's top official told residents to turn in their snakeheads yesterday, three days after a northern snakehead was hooked at a lake in a Wheaton park. Full story...
In Wheaton, the snakehead resurfaces
A Montgomery County fisherman has bagged a northern snakehead, the same voracious, fin-walking Asian predator that made national news when it took over three Crofton ponds in the summer of 2002. Full story...
State shares victory over snakehead fish
Just as a federal advisory panel on invasive species made its way through Maryland, a group of state biologists declared victory over the most notorious of all invasive fish - the northern snakehead that took over three Crofton ponds last summer. Full story...
DNR says pond is clear
Declaring that the northern snakehead fish has been eradicated in Crofton, state biologists applied a neutralizing agent yesterday to the largest of three poisoned ponds to rid the water of toxic chemicals added this month to kill the alien fish. Full story...
Hundreds of baby snakeheads hauled away from Crofton ponds
Cleanup crews hauled away yesterday nearly 800 pounds of dead fish -- including hundreds of baby northern snakeheads -- from three Crofton ponds poisoned by the state to get rid of the finny predators from Asia. Full story...
Fish poison applied to pond
State biologists in yellow protective coveralls and respirators sprayed what they hope will be a lethal dose of poison yesterday on the predatory northern snakeheads infesting a Crofton pond that inspired a summer of breathless news reports about alien invasions. Full story...
Tougher laws on alien fish urged
As lily pads began to die yesterday on the poisoned, snakehead-infested pond in Crofton, a man on the Eastern Shore was advertising in a local newspaper to sell an "aquarium sized" snakehead for $5. Full story...
Snakehead eradication begins in Crofton
As T-shirt vendors hawked their wares and the curious made a detour from their Sunday morning coffee run, a small boat bobbed in Maryland's most famous pond, spraying the first batch of chemicals that scientists hope will kill the voracious northern snakehead. Full story...
Snakehead extermination approved
State officials set an execution date last night for the snakehead fish that have taken up residence in a Crofton pond: Sunday at dawn. Full story...
Snakehead poisoning mired in details
One biologist will ask the landfill to dig a trench for truckloads of dead fish. A team will work on saving the turtles. And someone better bring the doughnuts. Full story...
Area merchants are unfazed by plan to kill snakeheads
As state environment officials move to eliminate the notorious northern snakehead from a Crofton pond, merchants close to the infested site have expressed indifference, skepticism and humor about the plan to kill the troublesome Chinese fish with herbicides and pesticides. Full story...
Fish get reprieve amid legal wrangling
A snag in negotiations with the owner of the snakehead-infested Crofton pond has given the voracious fish from China a temporary reprieve from their pending execution. Full story...
Soon ghastly fish will walk off into the sunset
AND SO THE death watch begins for the northern snakeheads in that Crofton pond, the infamous "fish from hell" that provided us with so much entertainment throughout this long, horrid summer. Full story...
DNR chief OKs snakehead poisoning
State Natural Resources Secretary J. Charles Fox sealed the fate yesterday of the reportedly hundreds of snakeheads lurking in Crofton, agreeing to poison their pond with a plant-based fish-killer. Full story...
Fish has a grip on our attention
Houseguests are like fish, the old saying goes: After three days, they start to stink. Full story...
Tests using poison on fish seen as success
Sure, the sharp-toothed northern snakeheads that are threatening native species in a Crofton pond can slither on their fins, breathe air and survive on land for three days. But plunk some rotenone in their tanks, and they slip away from this world quietly. Full story...
Deadly experiment begins on spawn of 'Frankenfish'
OXFORD - The baby snakeheads caught in a Crofton pond this month have come to the Room 41 quarantine laboratory to die. Full story...
U.S. eyes ban on fish
Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton will propose today that 28 species of snakehead fish be added to the country's list of injurious species, a move that coincides with the discovery this month that northern snakehead fish have been rapidly multiplying in a Crofton pond and feeding on native species. Full story...
Florida's Dr. Snakehead is making a house call
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Few people in this country know more about the sharp-toothed Asian fish that has invaded a Crofton pond than the man some here call Dr. Snakehead. Full story...
Hobbyist freed snakeheads in Md. pond
State investigators revealed yesterday the origin of the ferocious northern snakehead fish that have turned a muddy Crofton pond into a site of alien infestation: They came from New York. Full story...
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