Anglers in southeastern Missouri are encountering northern snakeheads more often. There have been at least 30 confirmed ...

They worked with the Missouri Department of Conservation to commercially fish in the Platte ... and he suspects the fish use the river as a nursery. He said that the species does not have many ...

“This fish is one of Missouri’s newest invasive species threats,” MDC Invasive Species Ecologist Angela Sokolowski said in a press release. “They look like native bowfin fish, so it’s ...

Anglers are also asked to kill the snakehead fish once sighted. The MDC said the first recorded sighting of the species in Missouri was in a borrow ditch in the St. Francis River levees in ...

The invasive northern snakehead, which has recently been appearing in Missouri and other states, must be eradicated, officials say.

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the Big Creek and St. Francis River crayfish as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Service also designated 2,112 river miles of ...

“This fish is one of Missouri’s newest invasive species threats,” MDC Invasive Species Ecologist Angela Sokolowski said in a press release. “They look like native bowfin fish, so it’s important to ...