Pond Poisoned in Effort to Control Snakeheads
From Times Wire Reports
State game officials sprayed enough poison to kill every fish in a murky pond to get rid of a foreign predator that infiltrated suburban Washington: the voracious, land-crawling snakehead fish.
The state dispatched two boats to spray 16 gallons of suffocating poison on the Crofton pond, where game officials feared the snakeheads that lived there would threaten native fish and possibly migrate to other waters.
Two hours after the poison was applied, fish came to the surface, struggling for air.
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