Its ashame why people like that are the reason we have restrictions on certain fish in certain states
I know, I am too young to have ever got to keep snakehead, less i want to go to maryland and catch one or drive to Canada and buy one, but then risk getting a record. Its pretty humorous to me that possessing a fish can get you a record, like if the risk is letting them into the wild, shouldn't that be a crime, why is possessing it a crime.....guess its just another form of prohibition.
And the populations that are in Maryland, were not someone pets that were released, someone intentionally released breeding pairs in Maryland when the word of a ban started to circulate, makes sense as its suppose to be good eating.
Was suppose to go down a few weeks ago to try and catch some, but plans feel through, still very curious how good of an eat they are, considering what people risked to get a native population into maryland.
Other thing i have read, if you are at all familiar with Maryland they have health advisory against eating native fish more then 2x a month, or at all if you are pregnant, as it can cause cancer and birth defects, but that advisory does not apply to "invasive" snakehead as they grow too quickly to absorb the same toxins as native species.
The other interesting piece of information released recently, is even after a decade of cohabitation, snakehead have not had any impacts on the numbers of Bass or Bluegill as was stated in the reasoning for the ban, its just a bull **** prohibition.
