Snakehead Fish in 7 States, U.S. to Ban Them

Science - Reuters Snakehead Fish in 7 States, U.S. to Ban Them Tue Jul 23, 6:42 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The land-walking snakehead fish that is native to Asia has been found in seven U.S. states and the Bush administration will announce on Tuesday a ban on U.S. imports of the predatory fish.

The snakehead, which can grow up to 3 feet long, eats other fish and can walk across land to find new sources of food in other lakes and streams. The fish can stay out of water for up to three days.

The fish came to light this summer after several snakeheads were found in a Maryland pond. The so-called Frankenfish were dumped there by a local resident who had initially imported them to make soup.

Snakeheads have been found in six other states: Hawaii, Florida, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to the Interior Department.

Interior Secretary Gale Norton will make the announcement that 28 species of snakehead fish will be subject to an government import and trade ban, unless a special permit is granted, a department official said on Monday.

"Interstate commerce will be illegal, you can't sell them across state lines," the official said.

The fish has primarily been imported to the United States for its excellent taste, even when eaten smoked or dried.

"Soup and other culinary delights, that's how it's gotten over here," the official said.

A recipe for watercress soup with snakehead fish can be found at Chinese food recipe Web site:

On Tuesday, Norton was also to discuss what the government will do to help affected states destroy the fish.

Draining lakes that have snakeheads runs the risk of pumping water with some of the infant fish into nearby lakes and streams.

Maryland officials are considering poisoning a small lake where at least 80 baby snakeheads have been found.

A scientific plan this week is expected to test various chemicals on the baby snakeheads to pinpoint the best way to kill them.

"If they got into the larger (water) system, they could alter the food chain and displace other species," said John Surrick, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

The people of northern Thailand and Myanmar (formerly Burma) believe a snakehead fish is a reincarnated sinner.

The freshwater fish has an ugly wide mouth and heavy scales, making it look like a snake's head and letting it swallow prey as large as it is.

Adults eat fish, frogs, aquatic birds and small mammals, while juvenile snakehead fish prey on earthworms, water bugs, tadpoles, dragonfly larvae and other organisms.

A snakehead fish is shown in this handout photo made available Tuesday, July 23, 2002 in Washington. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, not shown, Tuesday, July 23, 2002, during a news conference in Washington, proposed listing 28 species of snakehead fish as an injurious species in the United States. Her proposal calls for listing the species as injurious under the 1981 amendments to the Lacey Act, intended to curb illegal trading in fish, wildlife, or plants. The listing would prohibit importing these species of the fish or transporting them across state lines without a special permit. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

>They look like they're good fighters.

Good fighters indeed and prophecies say the Chinese will invade America in a consortium consisting of Russia, China, Arab nations, Mexico and others.

Bush continues Clinton Agenda

High-Tech Transfers To China Continue

Important prophecies about America:

A.C. Valdez (1929)
A.A. Allen (1954)
Zelma Kirkpatrick (1954)
Henry Gruver (1986)
Dimitru Duduman
Henry Gruver, I saw Russians Attack the USA

Dream of the Capturing of Many Women - 1997 -- re Muslims
Scott Hofstee - Sept. 3, 2001
Scott Hofstee in 2001
Last Trumpet - August 2001 (saw vision of NY island on fire before WTC fell)
Bob Neumann: The Dark Winter
Bob Neumann: The Alarm was Sounded
Jerry Golden: Vision of 10-06-01

Jonathan Hansen, known for his accuracy, said here that unless America repents, it will soon see 1,000 times the death toll of WTC, and ultimately millions. Go here for current and Archived Broadcasts.

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snakehead

noun. A smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels.

"They are believed to be on their way via a circuitous underground route to New York, where they are expected to work to pay off the money—estimated to be at least $30,000 (U.S.) apiece—they owe the snakeheads."
—Rod Mickleburgh, "Chinese migrants disappear," The Globe and Mail, September 4, 1999

Posted on September 8, 1999

Backgrounder:
According to Pamela Burdman of The San Francisco Chronicle ("How Gangsters Cash In On Human Smuggling," April 28 1993), the term "snakehead" comes from "the creative smuggling routes that snake from country to country before entering" the United States, Canada, or some other industrialized nation. —Paul ...The Word Spy - snakehead

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