# Snakeheads in the Potomac? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119 "2004-07-14T18:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brane\_damaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@brane\_damaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brane_damaj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/1 "2004-07-14T18:51:54Z")
a few months ago, the news reported that people caught a couple of snakehead fish in the Potomac River, but I haven’t heard anything since. So does anybody know if they caught any more, or have the snakeheads vanished into the native politician population? ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/2 "2004-07-14T19:08:35Z")
Yes, within the last two weeks there has been at least one caught. I don’t remember where it was at though. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/3 "2004-07-14T21:20:54Z")
Is this that Chinese creature-from-the-depths-of-Hell type of fish that was discovered in a Virginia pond a year or two ago? It had the ability to “walk” to neighboring bodies of water, right? I know they tried to contain the thing in just that one pond. Are you saying that the pond group – or other specimens – have found their way to the Potomac? ---
**Author:** ![adirondack\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@adirondack\_mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adirondack_mike)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/4 "2004-07-14T21:29:05Z")
[Yup, they’re back.](http://www.dnr.state.md.us/) Click on the snakehead link on the right. ---
**Author:** ![brane\_damaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@brane\_damaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brane_damaj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/5 "2004-07-14T21:30:58Z")
> [@stuyguy](#): > > Are you saying that the pond group – or other specimens – have found their way to the Potomac? That’s what the press says. They apparantly caught a few jeveniles. If a breeding population got into the Portomic, the say, we’d be screwed like a Thai pre-teen at a NAMBLA convention. ---
**Author:** ![Chunky\_Bum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Chunky\_Bum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chunky_Bum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/6 "2004-07-14T21:59:47Z")
There have been 9 caught in the last 8 weeks. The locations have been all around the Potomac river: Fairfax’s Pohick Bay, near Marshall Hall in Charles County, twice in Little Hunting Creek. Yeah, it’s probably safe to say they are in the Potomac. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_to\_be\_Queen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Never\_to\_be\_Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_to_be_Queen)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakeheads-in-the-potomac/255119/7 "2004-07-14T22:53:45Z")
I was just reading about snakehead fish caught in the Potomac River a few mintues ago. Seriously. Look at this site: [http://www.dgif.state.va.us/fishing/snakeheads.html](http://www.dgif.state.va.us/fishing/snakeheads.html) It says they have indeed been caught there! They look ever so creepy and one article says they have canine-like teeth. Another article though says this type do not attack humans.