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#1 Aug-07-24 3:44PM
- backtofuturetoyota
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Stafford
- Registered: Jan-12-12
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Chesapeake Channa
I may be late to this in not recognizing that Maryland has a new name for the snakehead. I must have either never noticed or just forgotten. Chesapeake Channa seems a little limited to the region since SHs can be found up and down the coast. Thoughts?
“It’s kind of the perfect invasive species,?? said Chris Jones, whose job with Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources is to focus on invasive species like the blue catfish and the Chesapeake Channa, also known as the snakehead fish.
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#2 Aug-07-24 6:03PM
Re: Chesapeake Channa
Years ago Mike Starrett tried to come up with a better name. I was fond of the Potomac Pike option. I liked it bc it didn't make sense (they are obviously not a pike) and that it gave some lineage back to where they seemed to have "started from" even though that was not also true since the story comes from a Crofton pond that does not drain into the Potomac.
Either way, to the general public, it would sound more appetizing and normal than Chesapeake Channa.
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#3 Aug-07-24 6:05PM
- Ernie
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- From: Ashburn VA
- Registered: Feb-03-06
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Re: Chesapeake Channa
Potomac Pike should have stuck but that limits the range.
I like Snakehead.
Time to go fishin' again!
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