Angler catches record invasive snakehead in Maryland river
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Damien Cook, of Rhodesdale, Md., has been recognized by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources as a new state record holder for northern snakehead – Channa argus – in the state’s Invasive Division.
Cook caught the 21.0-pound fish July 5 while fishing in a Dorchester County river. The northern snakehead is an invasive species now common throughout Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay tidal waters. The Department of Natural Resources encourages anglers to kill all snakeheads that they catch, and reminds anglers it is illegal to transport a live snakehead.
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