Chesapeake Channa. Not sure what that is exactly? Let’s refresh your memory: It’s the fish formerly known as the northern snakehead, an invasive species from China that was officially renamed ...

In the century that followed, the snakehead was caught and identified a handful of times, sometimes mistaken for other ...

Native to East Asia, the northern snakehead (also known as Chesapeake Channa) was first documented in Maryland in 2002. The species has since expanded its population here, after more fish were ...

identifying it as a species of snakehead, and naming it Channa amphibeus In the century that followed, the snakehead was caught and identified a handful of times, sometimes mistaken for other ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY - The northern snakehead fish, now known as the Chesapeake channa, has long been established in the Chesapeake Bay. But new research from Maryland scientists reveals just how much ...