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Snakeheads Appear at Home in the Potomac
This snakehead was caught last week when Virginia Game and Inland Fisheries researchers went electro-fishing in an Occoquan tributary. The next few weeks will bring a crucial test of the fish's growth in the area.
(By Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post)
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After a few minutes in Massey Creek, a tributary of the Occoquan, a mottled green shape thrashed in the water. Nick Lapointe, a Virginia Tech graduate student, scooped a long net, bringing up a roughly seven-inch snakehead.
"Yeah, baby!" Odenkirk exulted.
"I saw those speckles, and I knew exactly what he was," Lapointe said.
"Beady little eyes," said Ryan Saylor, a technician.
In the spring, Odenkirk's team had not found any snakeheads in this inlet. But Wednesday, they found two, which he said were probably siblings born in the creek last year.
So if two were caught, how many more could there be here?
"Hundreds?" Odenkirk speculated. He looked back at an acres-wide expanse of snakehead-friendly shallow water and thick grasses.
"I mean, you look behind us, they've got all that habitat. They could be anywhere."
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