BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The snakehead fish is an invasive species that came into Maryland in the early 2000s. They’ve been a big problem for our aquatic ecosystem because they eat everything, but ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — What's in a name? Nothing good for the snakehead fish. But a Maryland state senator recently amended a bill to rename the Northern Snakehead, an invasive species, in hopes of ...

A Crownsville man broke the state record for the largest catch of a Chesapeake Channa — an invasive fish commonly called a snakehead. “They taste good and everybody wins,” Matt Foreman told the ...

The introduction of Chesapeake Channa in the Blackwater River drainage has led to a decline in the relative abundance of 19 out of 22 native fish species. The arrival of Chesapeake Channa has altered ...

MARYLAND - October 1st marked the first day that the Northern Snakehead fish's new name, the 'Chesapeake Channa', took effect in Maryland. The name change comes after a law was proposed and passed by ...

MARYLAND (7News) — Maryland officials for years have tried to limit northern snakehead populations, and a soon-to-be signed bill to rename the fish might lure more people to harvest the fish, ...

Chesapeake Channa adults were first documented in Maryland, thousands of miles from their native habitat in East Asia in 2002. Subsequent illegal introductions and natural dispersal in the decades ...