30, 2019 3:28 p.m. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission confirmed Monday that an invasive species, the northern snakehead fish, was recently caught in the Monongahela River. It is the first ...

These fish have long dorsal fins that extend down most of their backs, giving them a streamlined shape perfect for fast swimming. The snakehead has an elongated, cylindrical body that can grow up ...

The largest U.S. invasive population ... In early October 2019, a fisherman caught a snakehead in Gwinnett County, Georgia, the first sighting of the fish in the state. Federal and many state ...

John McClelland, a British medical doctor working for the East India Company, received his fish from the employee and described it in 1845, identifying it as a species of snakehead, and naming it ...