Thousands of invasive fish removed from Maryland waters at Conowingo dam.

[BilletHead]

Thousands of Invasive Fish Removed from Maryland Waters at Conowingo Dam

 

[Johnsfolly]

The Chesapeake Channa 🙄 started being caught only two or three years ago at the dam. Lots of folks go up there to catch them now. Personally I prefer those shad😉.

[BilletHead]

I remembered that you like the shad fishing. Have you tried upstream from there? Does that lift system work well for those migratory fish?

[Quillback]

3 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

The Chesapeake Channa 🙄 started being caught only two or three years ago at the dam. Lots of folks go up there to catch them now. Personally I prefer those shad😉.

Why did they rename them?  Snakeheads they are, bonk them and fillet.  

[Johnsfolly]

18 hours ago, Quillback said:

Why did they rename them?  Snakeheads they are, bonk them and fillet.  

The renaming is an attempt to get more people to consider eating them. I guess eating snakehead was not as palatable as Chesapeake Channa🙄. Many folks like us do like to eat them when we catch them😉

[Johnsfolly]

22 hours ago, BilletHead said:

I remembered that you like the shad fishing. Have you tried upstream from there? Does that lift system work well for those migratory fish?

The dam does stop a lot more from getting upstream to spawn than the numbers that make it up the fish ladder. There are two spawning creeks downstream that get a lot of spawners in them. The dam is really  close to the PA border and we don't usually get PA licenses.  The Delaware River in Eastern PA is a better free flowing shad fishing destination in PA. 

My favorite place to shad fish is the tar river near Rocky Mount NC.

[tjm]

On 7/24/2024 at 11:26 AM, Quillback said:

Why did they rename them?  Snakeheads they are, bonk them and fillet.  

Channa would be a scientific name for the genus, which has about 50 species.

[Johnsfolly]

22 minutes ago, tjm said:

Channa would be a scientific name for the genus, which has about 50 species.

Channa argus or the Northern Snakehead is the species that we have here in Maryland. I think that is the same species found out in Arkansas and now in Missouri. The state guys here had two other names that they were looking at when they decided to try and relaunch with a new common name for this species in Maryland. I personally don't like this but they didn't ask me🤔. Might as well called them brim🤣

[tjm]

As far as I know all 50 species are called  snakeheads, that may be the Latin translation of Channidae, I don't know much at all about them, but had looked them up when my son who used to live in Fl. described them to me. Hopefully the Northern Snakehead is the only one that gets stocked in N.America, we really don't need any more invasives. The name ought to be Invasive Channa.

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Channa would be a scientific name for the genus, which has about 50 species.

Interesting I thought Channa was a made up marketing name.  When I was living in Washington the grocery stores were trying to sell chum salmon, aka dog salmon as "Silver Brite" salmon.