Yet a quick scan on Baltimore area restaurant menus suggests Chesapeake Channa has got a long way to go to catch up with the more typical local fare of crabs, crab cakes, oysters, rockfish ...

Since their arrival, Chesapeake Channa have colonized an average of three new Chesapeake Bay subwatersheds per year, according to a 2018 study by Love and Newhard.

To encourage more people to eat snakehead fish, and hopefully control the population, Maryland lawmakers thought the scientific name, Chesapeake Channa, sounded more appetizing. So that is the new ...

Maryland's effort to fight back against the spreading, invasive northern snakehead fish, now known as the Chesapeake Channa, could be facing a new challenge in the fish's breeding patterns.