'Tis true, in a pond in Crofton, MD. It's made headlines and the TV news
here in Baltimore. It's either a hobbyist release, or was dumped there when
a nearby pet shop went out of business.
>Is this the same thing as Amia? I've always called them bowfin.
Nope. A real snakehead, genus Channa. From China.
> I remember once upon a time though that the biological supply catalogs
> called them "freshwater dogfish" for some reason.
Bowfin have a bunch of colorful local names, dogfish being one of them.
Chris Scharpf
Baltimore
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