Apparently invasive snakehead fish have been renamed Chesapeake Channa to make them more appealing to diners.
I’m in the DC area and I look for them constantly; I wish they were easier to find in markets.
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How on earth did they come up with that name
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Right? Odd. But this snipped from the Baltimore Banner sheds light.
"The fish native to parts of Asia and Russia has the scientific name Channa argus and the common name of northern snakehead.
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The initial proposal from Morgan and Bailey was to rename the snakehead as the “Patuxent Fish” for the watershed where it was first found. But the name “Chesapeake Channa” emerged from the legislative process as the preferred new moniker."
