Sorry to say this bad news could lead to another serious potential Great
Lakes problem. The snakeheads are 'not' an answer to Mississippi River
Asian carp control, just a compound problem of exotics.
Unwanted snakehead invades Arkansas
The northern snakehead, an aggressive fish native to Asia, has been found
in Lee County and could colonize the lower White River basin.
?This is some of the worst news we could get as fisheries biologists,?
said Mark Oliver, assistant chief of fisheries for the Arkansas Game and
Fish Commission. ?We can see looking in their stomachs that they?ll eat
everything that?s out there. They?re eating crayfish and bream, and
they?ll kill fish just because of the competition factor. From the White
River, they have access to much of the state.? Lee Holt, district
fisheries biologist for the AGFC in Brinkley, confirmed a breeding
population of northern snakeheads April 28 in a drainage ditch in Lee
County. Oliver said a farmer found the first one about a week ago on the
ground near a drainage ditch. Since then, he said AGFC personnel also
found adult snakeheads, including three that measured 20 inches, 17
inches and 14 inches long, respectively.
?Unfortunately, all these creeks are way out of their normal borders,?
Oliver said. ?Once they?re out in the streams, there?s no way to do
anything about them. The water?s too cool to rotenone them, and there?s
too many places for us to miss them.?
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