'Frankenfish' Rears Ugly Head in Maryland, Again

[Snazzy]

'Frankenfish' Rears Ugly Head in Maryland, Again
Thu Apr 29, 2:21 PM ET

By Bryan Sears

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Maryland state workers plan to drain a suburban lake after the discovery of the same voracious, "walking" fish that two years ago prompted them to poison a smaller body of water, officials said on Thursday.

In what some locals are calling the "return of Frankenfish," a northern snakehead fish -- a top predator in China known for its voracious non-stop appetite and ability to "walk" on land using its fins -- was pulled this week from a lake near Washington. Workers dumped 100 gallons of poison into a Maryland pond in 2002 in a bid to eradicate a colony of snakeheads, which are capable of devouring all native species. There are concerns that if left unchecked, the fish could upset the local eco-system.

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Workers earlier this week sent electric shocks through the 5-acre lake in an effort to stun fish to the surface, but the procedure did not reveal any additional snakeheads. Workers also erected barriers to keep the fish from spreading into nearby waterways.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20040429/sc_nm/environment_snakehead_dc

(Cheney/Poindexter/Wolfy live around there? Something evil is a foot.... I return you now to serious news.)

[Eye and Monkey]

1. It's rePubbiCode. It means that they're going after Carville.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. FRY 'EM UP!

I hear the Chinese love these things.

If they really do taste halfway good, they should be easy to catch as bluefish, and the fishermen will clean 'em out faster than the state can.

[DoNotRefill]

3. 50 guys with M-79s....

should be able to clean the lake out toot-sweet. If they have air bladders, they can be killed with concussion.

[bleedingheart]

4. So some guy wanted to make fish soup and he buys this

fish and then decides against making it so he dumps this fish into a local lake????

If they know who this guy is I think that the fellow should be fined for the cost of eradicating this fish.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Why 'frankenfish'?

there's nothing artificial about the fish - it's just been released into a new habitat, where it causes havoc. This is bad reporting by Reuters. If they insist on an anthropomorphic metaphor, how about 'colonial fish'?

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. how about 'liberator fish'

It's coming to liberate the local ecosystem.

:D