The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

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The northern snakehead is not alone in this ability: Walking catfishes, lungfishes, and betta fish can all breathe air directly as well. Reproduction and rearing young

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A Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.”— Time Channa argus has a special chamber adjacent to its gills called a suprabranchial organ. This allows the animal to absorb oxygen directly from air by gulping it in through its mouth. This adaptation enables snakeheads to thrive in low-oxygen, stagnant bodies of water in a variety of settings, from swamps to muddy rivers to canals to ponds. It can survive outside of water for up to four days.

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Aquifers tens of metres below the surface are home to numerous species of fishes and at least one species of shrimp that are found nowhere else on Earth.

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Despite their predatory nature, smaller snakeheads are retiring in nature, so can suffer at the hands of large, aggressive cichlids. Shortly afterward, in March, 1986, Ah Kay was convicted on an unrelated count of attempted grand larceny. He served two and a half years in prison, and was deported to China, but he soon returned, pursuing a typically circuitous route, from Hong Kong to Thailand to Belize to Mexico to Guatemala, and, finally, to San Diego. Remarkably, in 1991, Ah Kay, who had committed multiple homicides, was granted political asylum in the United States. By that time, he had become a snakehead and the leader of the Fuk Ching gang. However, there are several efforts to eradicate them and limit their spread, including programs to fish and eat the creatures. The state of Maryland, for example, has an annual snakehead fishing derby that teaches people how to fillet the meat and gives a small award to the person who catches the biggest one. When snakeheads are found, serious measures are often taken, such as killing everything in that particular body of water, when that’s deemed possible or appropriate. The females often hunt for food together. When they notice keepers opening the door above the tank, they will swim up to the top and wait to be fed. Our most dominant female always eats first. Our only male seems quite shy and hides most of the time. Got any tips for spotting them? The Ultimate Monster Fish: The Frankenfish Snakehead", Carina Suarez, 28 July 2014, National GeographicAh Kay waived extradition and came to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to the murder charges, was imprisoned in New York, and volunteered to coöperate with the F.B.I. Those who debriefed him say that he was an exceptionally intelligent turncoat, who came to meetings equipped with legal pads outlining the information he was able to supply. “The cream rises to the top, even in gangs,” one official who dealt with him told me. “It was like having a good Fujianese F.B.I. agent on the case.” The snakehead Weng Yu Hui was arrested in New York in April, 1994. The following November, his Taiwanese associate, Lee Peng Fei, was polishing a Mercedes outside his Bangkok apartment when he was arrested by the Royal Thai Police. Riveting. . . . Keefe deftly interweaves the political, legal and gunslinging strands of Sister Ping’s story, rendering scenes of White House policy deliberation and immigration court procedure as engagingly as scenes of Chinatown shootouts and high-seas rendezvous.”

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Brilliant. . . . Keefe’s mastery of this chapter of our ongoing immigration saga is impressive. He muses thoughtfully about its many conundrums and highlights how our ethos of welcoming the persecuted gets soured by bad policy and the pervasive exploitation of the helpless. There will be more chapters, no doubt, but this one was pretty riveting.” There’s a common misconception that air-breathing fish live in stagnant, relatively foul water in the wild and that clean water conditions are therefore not necessary in the aquarium. While some snakeheads can tolerate a wide range of water conditions — and studies have shown that the Dwarf, Spotted and Chevron can survive for at least 72 hours in pH levels from 4.3 to 9.4 — many fare poorly when water conditions are allowed to deteriorate or undergo rapid changes, as in a massive water change. Snakeheads can be relatively easy to spawn, provided the right conditions are set up for them. Sexing most species is not easy for the beginner, although the truism that females are plumper is readily applicable here.

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Sister Ping in 1990: the FBI described her then as ‘the most successful alien smuggler of all time’. Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News/Getty Images

The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe: 9780307279279

A species of subterranean fish described last year has been found to be so different from its closest relatives that it belongs to an entirely new family of fish called the dragon snakeheads. Humans interact with this fish in a number of ways. People catch them for food and for sport, and have introduced them into waterways outside of their native range in Asia. The Chevron is one of the most robust freshwater fishes and consequently, water parameters are not important, although the usual caveat of avoiding extremes still applies. This is a large species that can reach 90cm/35” and, like the Red, is ill-suited for the beginner aquarist. With an aggressive attitude, an eager appetite for fish and the ability to “walk” on land, the northern snakehead fish is a powerful predator. Recently, Asia Trail keepers welcomed four snakeheads—one male and three females—into their care. Get acquainted with this aquatic species from assistant curator of giant pandas Laurie Thompson. What is your favorite fact about snakeheads? The book tells the story of charismatic middle-aged grandmother Sister Ping who runs her complex empire from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown. Keefe recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way, he paints a portrait of a generation of illegal immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.

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Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.” This fish has carnivorous feeding habits and eats other animals as its primary source of food. It eats a wide variety of prey, and can eat creatures up to 33% of its own body size. Some common types of prey include other fish, insects, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, and frogs. A few of the different species of fish that they hunt include perch, carp, loach, bluegill, killifish, goldfish, bream, and more. Snakehead and Human Interaction All snakeheads have that, but Aenigmachanna doesn't. It doesn't even have a trace of it, which means that it is not as if these fish reduced this organ, I think they never had it. That was one of the first big differences.' The Snakehead's character model can be found at the Cobra Marital Arts Gym, even being voiced by the same person. Any discussion of predatory oddball fish for the aquarium will invariably feature a snakehead or two. They have been thrust into the limelight because of the picture painted of them as an aquatic invasive species but, whatever your opinion, snakeheads make great aquarium fish if given proper care.