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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARYLAND -- Maryland's effort to fight back against the spreading, invasive northern snakehead fish, now known as the Chesapeake Channa, could be facing a new challenge in the fish's breeding patterns ...

Human beings are supposed to be the apex predators in the Chesapeake Bay region. Just look at all the things people kill and consume: Chickens, cows, crabs, chocolate cake (Marylanders naturally seem ...

Channa is a nod to the Latin name of the fish, Channa argus, which is itself from the family name Channidae.The commissioners are hoping to present the winning name to the Maryland Department of ...