[King Bait Co.]

Brian_VA now if they breed up to five times a year thats a ton of snakeheads being reproduced. How many eggs does one snakehead lay each time they spawn? Pirannas lay up to 2500 eggs per fish with only 800 to a 1000 making it after they hatch( thats a low estament). Then the numbers get a little smaller as they grow. Now if you look at how snakeheads are a survivor fish they most likely would adapt to deeper waters as food gets harder to come by in the shallows. The bass my be eating them up but I wouldn't look at it as a new food source for them. You have to look at as they are fighting for their home waters. The snakeheads are most likely snacking on the babies too while eating or attacking the males first that gaurd the nest leaving the nest unprotected. Once the snakeheads get to a certian size they will have nothig to hunt them down. They can get into other lakes, rivers and steams by ducks and geese. The eggs will stick to them and they fly somewere else and leave them. Thats how some of our lakes got over run with carp and shad. Their should be action taken now not later even if its shocking them. The longer we wait I will be fishing for snakehead in the next ten years here. The state and fed gov needs to quit talking and get things rolling now. Why not let commercial fish of snakeheads start we have proven we can wipe out other types of fish this way. Their is a market for them all over the US. Then make it once their gone their gone and if you get caught bring them in the US its five years in prison per fish. It kinda makes you wonder if someone in the gov or has ties to the gov has a plan to harvest them for profit.