EVIL MUTANT FISH WILL KILL US ALL!!!!

[Pootertoot]

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Freakish Fish Causes Fear in Md.
Carnivore Moves on Land, Can Survive 4 Days Without Water


At first, reports of the strange-looking creature with the head of a snake and a gaping saw-toothed maw were dismissed as just another fish tale. A bowfin, most likely. Or some other kind of exotic fish that outgrew its tank and was tossed into the pond by its owner.

But two weeks after an unidentified angler caught the thing in a drainage pond behind a Crofton shopping center, state officials solved the mystery. An exotic fish expert in Florida identified the creature from a photo as a northern snakehead, prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are concerned.

It grows to nearly three feet, eats whatever it wants -- mostly other fish -- can live through icy winters and survives even in oxygen-deprived waters.

But there's more: It can crawl out of the water and wiggle across land, surviving up to four days.

Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins.

Even worse, the fisherman -- perhaps thinking it was a rare native species -- released it.

Biologists from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service mobilized, setting out to sandbag the pond, which sits in the floodplain of the Little Patuxent River.

"The fear is: This thing could hop from the pond, across the floodplain and into the river, and then all bets are off," said Bob Lunsford, a biologist with the department. "It's the baddest bunny in the bush. It has no known predators in this environment, can grow to 15 pounds, and it can get up and walk. What more do you need?"

So they tried trapping it, baiting some giant minnow traps with frozen herring, and casting lines over the side of a canoe. Nothing.

They tried shocking it out of the water. Still nothing.

They could pump out the pond, but the only place to dump the water would be the nearby Patuxent River, where lots of native fish would become fodder for the voracious snakehead or snakeheads, however many there may be.

The team could get rid of the fish by doing away with the vegetation where they hide and try to catch them, or by dousing the pond with rotenone, a suffocating poison.

But both options could give the fish enough time to escape across land.

Frustrated, Lunsford plans to go out to the pond again later this week with more traps and bait.

The best option may be to simply wait it out, suggested Walter Courtenay Jr., the exotic fish biologist Lunsford consulted.

"I don't know of anything admirable about these fish," said Courtenay, professor emeritus of zoology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. "The only recourse they've got is to either get rid of the vegetation or wait until winter when it dies back, and kill all the fish in the pond."

Snakeheads began arriving in this country 30 years ago as a delicacy for Asian food markets, Courtenay said. Because they can survive for days out of water, they easily ship and arrive to the markets alive, he said.

State officials suspect the fish in the Crofton pond was bought at an area fish market. Investigators are looking into reports that it may have been released as a religious offering, a practice by some eastern religions.

There are 25 kinds of snakehead fish, and all are illegal to possess in 13 states, but not in Virginia, Maryland or the District, said Courtenay. He is studying the threat, and expects to issue a report to Fish & Wildlife later this year that recommends banning its importation altogether.

Meanwhile, wildlife managers say they will continue to consider their options.

"If you catch it, kill it," said Lunsford. "It's not a dead or alive thing, we want it dead."



Oh man, this is worse than robots. I bet it can eat robots. AND IT CAN WALK.

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If it tries for the Anacostia River in DC it's dead. Nothing will live in that cesspool.

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[Se7en]

That's it, I'm buying a gun.

Between evil fish trying to kill us, and the evil robots trying to enslave us, I'm gonna go Rambo and stock up my armory.

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[Pootertoot]

Do you honestly think that a bullet could stop a fish that can LIVE OUT OF WATER FOR FOUR DAYS?!? AND WALK!?!? AND DEVOUR ALL IN ITS PATH?!!?

WE'RE DOOOOOOMEDDDD

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[Hosp]

You see what happens when everyone wants to be exotic? This fish was probably meant to end up in some kind of sushi roll and now it's going to kill everybody. I've never seen a good old hot dog ever kill anybody.

But if it's Mutant walking fish vs. AI Robots? I'll give it to the fish. The AI can only adapt from it's own experiences. Mutant fish woud just have to grab the robot and drag it into the water and have it short circuit. Unless programed toavoid water the robot won't have a chance.

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[seagullbeagle]

This problem arises alot in horticulture... a new,introduced species is far more adapted and ready for success than the indiginous species.The animal should be iradicated at all costs.... Unless its like swamp thing and has undergone a horrible genetic deformation due to alteration by man, then maybe we ought to try and trap it and exploit its abilities. <P>

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[Zipgun]

Maybe it has plans to do <a href=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301650425.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg>good</a>.

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[Claire]

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, killer fish?? <P>
If it tries for the Anacostia River in DC it's dead. Nothing will live in that cesspool <P>
Same goes for the Hackensack & Passaic rivers in NJ. <P>

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[sunndoggy8]

"The fear is: This thing could hop from the pond, across the floodplain and into the river, and then all bets are off," said Bob Lunsford, a biologist with the department. "It's the baddest bunny in the bush. It has no known predators in this environment, can grow to 15 pounds, and it can get up and walk. What more do you need?"


It was bound to happen eventually...with all the humans eating it's cousins and other relatives. The fish are rising up against us, and it's about time. First it was shark attacks, and now it's walking snakefish. What will be next?!

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[A.J.]

The latest:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/12/alien.fish.ap/index.html

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[buttplug]

LOBSTERS ARE ALREADY BULLETPROOF.

happy anal jim

[Claire]

Is this like the Simpsons episode when the dolphins rose up & drove all of the humans into the ocean? Is that what we have to look forward to??

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The Fish is really Don geronimo's Wife's Poon.

EVIL REIGNS!!!

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[A.J.]

Their empire is spreading:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/23/snakehead.reut/index.html

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[Aggie]

That's it, I'm buying a gun.
Good idea!

First the mice, now fish...I give up. I saw the movie planet of the apes, I'm not living like that.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

As long as they don't have switchblades, I think we're pretty safe.

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[Pootertoot]

Adults eat fish, frogs, aquatic birds and small mammals


To clarify:
Small Mammals=CHILDREN.

You cannot kill these things. They're near invincible, they've started using rudimentary tools to hunt AND it's only a matter of time before they make it in the sewage systems.

They will swim up your toilet, burrow into your anus and work you like a puppet from the inside.

Sleep with one eye open, for they're coming. By the darkness of night. With sharpened sticks. To eat your babies.

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[mindtank]

Fish? Alright , now I'm starvin'.

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[Zipgun]

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[HordeKing1]

The hell with the other fish. I'm worried about it crawling out of the toilet!

As if snakes and alligators in the sewers weren't bad enough.

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[A.J.]

U.S. Says Snakehead Fish Like a 'Bad Horror Movie'
Wed Jul 24,11:07 AM ET
By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Describing the land-walking snakehead fish as "something from a bad horror movie," Interior Secretary Gale Norton said on Tuesday she wants to ban U.S. imports of the Asian predator that has turned up in seven states from Maine to Hawaii.

The freshwater snakehead has a voracious appetite, often consuming all other fish in a lake or pond and even eating its young. It can slither across land, staying out of water for up to three days, to find new sources of food.

"These fish are like something from a bad horror movie," Norton told reporters as she announced a department proposal to prohibit the import or sale across state lines of 28 species of the snakehead.

Norton warned that snakeheads can eat almost any small animal in its path and reproduce quickly.

"They have the potential to cause enormous damage to our valuable recreational and commercial fisheries. We must do everything we can to prevent them from entering our waters, either accidentally or intentionally," she said.

They have even attacked people in China who got too close to snakeheads' egg nesting areas, Norton said. They are also native to Africa.

The fish's natural habitat is in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers in Asia and Africa.

Thankfully, they have natural predators: smaller snakeheads are eaten by bigger fish, while the full-grown, 3-foot (one meter) snakehead is consumed by crocodiles and alligators.

BOUGHT TO MAKE SOUP!

Snakeheads have been found in seven states: Hawaii, Florida, California, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to the Interior Department. Thirteen states prohibit possession of live snakeheads.

The fish gained notoriety this summer after several snakeheads were found in a Maryland pond. The so-called Frankenfish were dumped there by a local resident who had bought them to make soup for a sick relative.

Maryland officials are considering poisoning the small lake where at least 80 baby snakeheads have been found.

The fish has primarily been imported to the United States by seafood sellers and aquarium shops.

Snakeheads are sold in live food fish markets and some restaurants in Boston and New York, where they are legal. The fish have also been sold through some aquarium fish retailers over the Internet.

All such sales would end under the department proposal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Customs inspectors would be able to seize shipments of live snakeheads and their eggs.

Those caught transporting snakeheads could face up to six months in prison and fines as high as $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for organizations.

An exception would be made for scientific, educational or zoological purposes.

The department's proposal will be published this week in the government's Federal Register and be subject to a 30-day public comment period.



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[Pootertoot]

They have even attacked people in China who got too close to snakeheads' egg nesting areas, Norton said. They are also native to Africa.

<b><i>Intentionally!</b></i> These motherfuckers are sentient!
They know everything we're doing! They'll confound us at every turn. I have it on good authority that Tom Daschle gets phone calls late at night, someone...something...playing "Under the Sea" while a group of them laugh, and a young child screams in the background.

I hear if an alligator actually consumes one, from deep within its bowels you'll hear a bellowing "Predator" laugh, and the alligator will explode, then and there! With their lightning quick reproductive habits, it won't be too long before they blow up the entire alligator/croc population, which are known for their finnicky reproduction (have you <i>seen</i> an alligator? Would <i>you</i> fuck it?)

I will leave you with this, a chilling interview with a captured snakehead from "The Orlando Sentinal":

Reporter: "What do you want from us?"

Snakehead: We want you...(dramatic pause) ...to <b>die</b>


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[Aggie]

http://www.snakeheads.org/
If you want to check out our enemies.

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[HordeKing1]

I wasn't really worried until they found those snakefish today practicing their newly aquired fire-making skills.

And then there was that snakefish with a holster....

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[shellcreatives]

I first saw this story in USA Today...

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[Pootertoot]

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It is no longer safe to walk the streets. They roam them in packs, ruling over us all.

Has no one noticed that children have started disappearing since these things appeared? THEY'RE EATING THEM, PEOPLE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

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[nickeye]

"...and then all bets are off," said Bob Lunsford, a biologist with the department. "It's the baddest bunny in the bush..."
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[sunndoggy8]

I will leave you with this, a chilling interview with a captured snakehead from "The Orlando Sentinal":

Reporter: "What do you want from us?"

Snakehead: We want you...(dramatic pause) ...to die



Pootertoot, I think you're taking this a tad too seriously. They can't really talk...you know that, right?

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[Pootertoot]

Pootertoot, I think you're taking this a tad too seriously. They can't really talk...you know that, right?


Calling someone by their full board name when addressing them is taking things a tad too seriously...you know that, right?

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[A.J.]

Maryland has declared war on these bastards!



http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/06/snakehead.poison.reut/index.html

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[grlNIN]

Omg theyre Huge!.....couldnt someone just put a knife through it head and then fry its ass up?......




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[Aggie]

Two snakeheads were dumped in the Maryland pond by a local resident who bought them from a live fish market to make soup.

About 100 baby snakeheads were later found in the pond.

They're like freakin' rabbits!

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[TooCute]

a new,introduced species is far more
adapted and ready for success than the indiginous
species

BZZZT wrong TRY AGAIN buddy. That is a completely
uninformed statement. Please don't try to talk
ecology if you don't know what you're talking about,



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[A.J.]

They're back! (http://www.vibe.com/post/maryland-puts-bounty-killer-snakehead-fish-aka-fishzilla-133402)

[spoon]

Let's be fair, they never really left since being introduced bc of asians bringing them in years ago...delicacy there and usually brought in alive!

Funny tie in too, as this fishing bounty story on the snakehead come to us from VIBE?!

HA! That's just funny shit to me.

[hanso]

Mudskipper, have Fez call it.

[keithy_19]

Fish are such disgusting creatures.

[Chigworthy]

Mudskipper, have Fez call it.

Hanslation module cannot compute. Shutting Down....

[hanso]

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Freakish Fish Causes Fear in Md.
Carnivore Moves on Land, Can Survive 4 Days Without Water


At first, reports of the strange-looking creature with the head of a snake and a gaping saw-toothed maw were dismissed as just another fish tale. A bowfin, most likely. Or some other kind of exotic fish that outgrew its tank and was tossed into the pond by its owner.

But two weeks after an unidentified angler caught the thing in a drainage pond behind a Crofton shopping center, state officials solved the mystery. An exotic fish expert in Florida identified the creature from a photo as a northern snakehead, prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are concerned.

It grows to nearly three feet, eats whatever it wants -- mostly other fish -- can live through icy winters and survives even in oxygen-deprived waters.

But there's more: It can crawl out of the water and wiggle across land, surviving up to four days.

Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins.

Even worse, the fisherman -- perhaps thinking it was a rare native species -- released it.

Biologists from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service mobilized, setting out to sandbag the pond, which sits in the floodplain of the Little Patuxent River.

"The fear is: This thing could hop from the pond, across the floodplain and into the river, and then all bets are off," said Bob Lunsford, a biologist with the department. "It's the baddest bunny in the bush. It has no known predators in this environment, can grow to 15 pounds, and it can get up and walk. What more do you need?"

So they tried trapping it, baiting some giant minnow traps with frozen herring, and casting lines over the side of a canoe. Nothing.

They tried shocking it out of the water. Still nothing.

They could pump out the pond, but the only place to dump the water would be the nearby Patuxent River, where lots of native fish would become fodder for the voracious snakehead or snakeheads, however many there may be.

The team could get rid of the fish by doing away with the vegetation where they hide and try to catch them, or by dousing the pond with rotenone, a suffocating poison.

But both options could give the fish enough time to escape across land.

Frustrated, Lunsford plans to go out to the pond again later this week with more traps and bait.

The best option may be to simply wait it out, suggested Walter Courtenay Jr., the exotic fish biologist Lunsford consulted.

"I don't know of anything admirable about these fish," said Courtenay, professor emeritus of zoology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. "The only recourse they've got is to either get rid of the vegetation or wait until winter when it dies back, and kill all the fish in the pond."

Snakeheads began arriving in this country 30 years ago as a delicacy for Asian food markets, Courtenay said. Because they can survive for days out of water, they easily ship and arrive to the markets alive, he said.

State officials suspect the fish in the Crofton pond was bought at an area fish market. Investigators are looking into reports that it may have been released as a religious offering, a practice by some eastern religions.

There are 25 kinds of snakehead fish, and all are illegal to possess in 13 states, but not in Virginia, Maryland or the District, said Courtenay. He is studying the threat, and expects to issue a report to Fish & Wildlife later this year that recommends banning its importation altogether.

Meanwhile, wildlife managers say they will continue to consider their options.

"If you catch it, kill it," said Lunsford. "It's not a dead or alive thing, we want it dead."



Oh man, this is worse than robots. I bet it can eat robots. AND IT CAN WALK.

They are in south Florida now (must have hitchhiked) and kill every other fish, come bass fishing while you still can.