[Mishmash] North Carolina Fisherman Catches Piranha

[Richard Barth]

I missed the piranha movie.  I don't miss piranha hereabouts.  We've 
had our share of snakeheads, though.  A summer or two ago one was 
discovered in a small pond near here.  For weeks the newspapers 
talked about the fish with lungs that could walk on dry ground (over 
limited distances of course.)  There was concern they would go 
traipsing from the pond into a nearby stream that eventually emptied 
into the Potomac.  The pond was poisoned to kill the snakeheads and 
everything else in it.

Since then, the have been discovering snakehead fish in the Potomac 
periodically.   They obviously got there somehow, whether from that 
pond or not, and are doing quite nicely, thank you.  They're 
predators and have nothing around here to kill them, not even 
piranha.  But at least they're edible, and considered quite a 
delicacy in some parts of the world I understand.

Dick

At 10:01 AM 7/4/2007, you wrote:
>North Carolina Fisherman Catches Piranha
>FOX News
>
>This happened quite a few years back on the Mississippi river as 
>well.  I remember reading about it, too.
>
>Click on the URL below for the rest of this story:
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287974,00.html
>
>
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