It’s been 13 years since the snakehead, a.k.a. the frankenfish, was first found in the Potomac River. Initial predictions were dire, but during recent years it’s become clear that the ...

The northern snakehead has established itself firmly in the Potomac River system, with a population estimated at somewhere above 21,000 individuals, ranging through more than 120 river miles (200 ...

My brother and I had been fishing under an exit ramp to Interstate 495 on a tributary of the Potomac River when we heard shouts from my son and nephew. Finally, someone had hooked a snakehead.

That's because the location is the farthest north on the Potomac River that the snakehead has been found since it was first discovered in the state — in Crofton in Anne Arundel County in 2002 ...

Problem solved. Or so it appeared. Two years later, northern snakeheads fulfilled biologists’ worst fear and showed up in the Potomac River. Experts worried that snakeheads in the Potomac ...

We have a new — and unwelcome — resident in our stretch of the Potomac River: the Northern Snakehead caught at Dam #4 on June 10 near Scrabble, W.Va. Now snakeheads have been an unwelcome ...

And no, they aren’t walking on land to new bodies of water. While snakeheads can survive out of water for short periods of time, they cannot walk on land. The Potomac River has had a snakehead ...

In 2004, northern snakeheads were found in the Potomac River near the nation's capital and have since established a population." the department said in a species overview. Just last month ...

Sielicki has fished for northern snakeheads for 20 years, since they first showed up in Potomac Creek, a shallow inlet that feeds into the Potomac River, a major Washington-area waterway.

Snakeheads were illegally dumped into a pond in Crofton, Maryland two years earlier. They spread into the Potomac River drainage, eventually making their way into Virginia streams. They finally ...