Officials in Pennsylvania are sounding the alarm after an angler caught a destructive aquatic intruder in Chester County, ...

The average size fish landed runs from 8-10 pounds. And if the clients don’t hook up with a snakehead, they’ll catch plenty of nice largemouth – which also like docks, grass and pads.

River herring and striped bass have dramatically declined in the Potomac, he noted. He is also examining how long-lasting, polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affect fish, and has found PFAS in two ...

The fish, which are plentiful in the Potomac River and its tributaries, had been found from Lake Michigan to Lake Anna before its April discovery in Colonial Heights’ Lakeview Reservoir on Swift ...

The northern snakehead, an invasive species of fish native to Asia, has successfully broken out of the Potomac River system and established itself in the Rappahannock River, according to state ...

Initially discovered in a pond in Maryland in 2002, the species has now been found in other locations, such as the Potomac River, Pennsylvania, and most recently, Missouri.

Native to Asia, the northern snakehead first turned up in U.S. waters in 2002, in a Maryland pond. Since then, it's crept through waterways into Pennsylvania, the Potomac River, and now, Missouri.

It was first found in the United States in a Maryland pond in 2002, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. From there to the Potomac River, rivers in Pennsylvania and onward.

Despite this suppression, in the United States the snakehead population has become most abundant in the Washington-area’s Potomac River and its tributaries, and in the southern state of Arkansas ...

A fisherman said he’d found a northern snakehead in a tributary of the 400-mile Potomac River. The fish had already been reported in Maryland two years prior but in isolated ponds — not ...

The Watershed has seen a spike in the invasive species’ populations since they were first discovered in the Potomac River in 2014. Anglers who harvest them for food consider them to be a delicacy.