From the "severe overreaction" files...

[SackAttack]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/04/29/alien.fish.ap/index.html

Drain a lake to kill a fish that would...destroy the lake's ecosystem. Nice.

[QuikSand]

Well, to be a little more presice, the little fuckers spawn like mad, eat everything in sight, and when they are done taking over their current body of water, they walk on land to another one. Maryland has already been ravaged by other introduced species like nutria... the last thing we need are these little demons taking over pond after pond.

The 2002 incident happened just a couple of miles down the road from my home -- it was quite a spectacle. Nothing short of draining completely served to get rid of them -- and there were hundreds and hundreds of them in a fairly small pond.

[MikeVic]

These sound like awesome animals.

[Franklinnoble]

No kidding... they might be more mighty than the colossal squid...

[Franklinnoble]

dola... at the very least, I should think they could take Shorty's pet shark.

[SackAttack]

Quik, I understand the rationale.

It just seems a little bit like the cure might be worse than the poison. I mean...how are you going to rebuild the ecologies of these ponds after they've been drained? Are they even going to be refilled?

[Crapshoot]

That is one scary looking fish....

[JPhillips]

Sack: This pond is pretty close to where I live. They don't just drain the lake and kill off all the fish. They first use a shock boat to stunn the fish. Then they net them and examine each one to see if there are any remaining snakeheads. The fish are moved and will be reintroduced to the pond at a later date. The water is then pumped out and filtered so as to collect and destroy any remaining snakehead eggs.

It is a bitch of a cure, but if this fish multiplies and moves around soon most of southern Maryland's ponds are filled with only snakeheads.

[CamEdwards]

and then of course there's the rationale of possibly killing off the ecosystem of one pond in order to save many others.

I saw this on the local news the other night. I can't believe I now live in the land of Frankenfish.

[Fidatelo]

I don't see a lot of live fish, do they normally have tongues??? That thing is freakin' scary looking...

[Fonzie]

"All the Crofton fish were traced to a Maryland man who discarded two fish after buying them live in a New York market."

What a dork.