Eating the Invasive “Frankenfish” to Stop Its Spread | National Geographic

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snakeheads are a pretty smart fish I
think I’ve seen them where they’ll stir
up mud and they’ll sit there and they
won’t move they’ll stir up that mud to
make a camouflage for their self but
then they won’t make anymore mud so as
the current washes the little mud cloud
away they’re still sitting in the same
spot some people call them Frankenfish
some people think that they look like a
snake that they’re ugly it’s easier to
encourage harvest for a species with a
bad reputation but I don’t think that
allows us the right to do it without
thought that’s part of our job is to not
simply encourage people to harvest the
animal but also to prevent invasive
species from becoming introduced we as
biologists we don’t have the manpower to
reduce the population that much so we
really need the help of anglers to do
that this tournament advertises a
control method that the department is is
encouraging so we’re encouraging
complete removal and harvest more
importantly we’re encouraging
consumption
it’s been about ten years since I’ve
been in the Potomac River unfortunately
they’ve pretty much traversed the river
from Great Falls pretty much down to the
mouth which is over 120 River miles we
just don’t know the impacts of this
thing but it’s a large freshwater fish
one female can carry up to a hundred
thousand eggs so they really have the
chance to out-compete are the fish that
are in the ecosystem now so that’s the
main concern and that’s why it’s
considered an invasive species
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