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  • Invasive Snakehead Fish a New Threat to Florida

    Kaitlin Kovacs and Jerald Pinson|Updated Jan 24, 2023

    A population of non-native aggressive, air-breathing fish known as the goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata) was documented for the first time in the Gulf Coast region, according to a recent study. The fish were discovered in a freshwater pond in Manatee County, Florida, about 250-km from the only other known population of this species in the United States, which has existed in Broward County, Florida, since about 2000. Native to Asia, snakeheads have been introduced to the...