Snakehead fishing on the Yahoo homepage

[Richard Farino]

Saw this on the homepage this morning:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/tough-yes-snakeheads-may-not-ecological-scourge-050916516.html

 

 

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Richard Farino

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[FlyTimesDC]

"Lightning perch"....I like it.

[Brendan]

odenkirk has a sweet gig and man that's a helluva fish. 

is there any info on what kinda toxins/metals are found in the meat of potomac snakehead?   

i have never eaten a fish out of the tidal potomac, really anywhere below smokehole, but from rich's posts and others, kinda tempted to try them out... very least,  a good conversation piece to bring one to a bbq. 

just curious, because given the health of the bass and catfish, you couldn't pay me to eat one from here. 

thanks, 

b 

[Rob Snowhite]

From the snakehead tourney last year I was told the grow so fast that they don't harbor toxins in their flesh like cats and bass. Maybe data has changed since them but md dnr said they were ok to eat. 

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[HeaveToo]

I agree with Rob.  I have been told the same thing.

That being said, I wouldn't eat them more than a few times a month, at max.  A lot of places there are advisement placards placed saying that you can only consume so much of the fish each month.

The snakehead I ate tasted good, but it did kind of make me nervous because it came out of the Potomac.  

[Mike Bailey]

Alex Binsted (manager at Fletcher's) as cleaned many Snakehead. More often than not he cuts out some sort of worm or parasite in the fillet. The ones he misses cook up well and have done us no harm to date. 

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[Dale White]

I recently caught a 27in snakehead out of Cameron run, upstream of Belle Haven. It had several red long worms in the meat. I never really intended to eat it but filleted it anyhow. Planning on using it for chum filler.

 

I wonder if Snakheads are more susceptible to parasites than other fish?

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[namfos]

If memory serves, most of the compounds that are of concern (and hence fish advisories) are persistent and lipophilic, which causes them to bioaccumulate. It's in a fish's adipose (fatty) tissues where they will be found. (but not Hg, or mercury, which might be found in any tissue) There's this from EPA, http://1.usa.gov/15y1djG.

Mark