https://www.nj.com/times-sports/2011...e_smallmo.html
We don't need another virus like this which absolutely decimated the smallmouth population and other species in the Susquehanna River and Delaware River a few decades ago. Scary stuf! Fish dying within days of being infected. It's as devastating as what happened 5 or 6 years ago with the steelhead population in Lake Ontario the result of a change in winter feeding habits due to the lake freezing up resulting in a vitamin B deficiency in steelies that killed 90% of the steelhead population. If snakeheads in any way are capable of spreading their own bacterial infections in a system that could have this magnitude of impact, every effort should be made to remove the species from the watershed.
Another article where snakeheads have been found to spread large mouth bass virus (LMBV) which is another deadly and devastating disease.
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/b...ern-snakeheads
