[NormsRevenge]

This pic taken in James River, not NJ.

[SlickWillard]

An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.

And if the flathead tastes better than any of them, then remind me again why this is supposed to be a bad thing?

[Free Trapper]

Article about flathead in NJ to add to the one about flathead in Pennsylvania.

They sure are spreading,makes me wonder if people are stocking them to get some good fishing started up back East.

[blackdog]

Exactly how is a species native to America an invasive species? Flatheads have been living in waterways for hundreds of years. There are some in the Catawba River the size of Volkwagens.

This panic brought to you by the same folks who shave Lynx hair from the ones at the zoo and then spread it around prefered realestate to declare it Lynx habitat, which by the way needs fourty more wildlife managers to manage it's habitat, while they are really in a zoo six hundred miles away..............

[Cacique]

ping

[SoDak]

It's another subset in the species known in my circle as "fish you throw back, wonder how you ended up catching, and hope it never happens again".