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"'Frankenfish': It's What's For Dinner"

"More people on the East Coast are acquiring a taste for snakehead, an exotic fish that's moved here from Asia. But the fish are still multiplying and spreading."



"Snakehead came to Maryland almost 10 years ago. The so-called 'Frankenfish' looks like its namesake and has multiple rows of teeth. Someone released it here — and then there was a documentary and an unbelievably bad movie.

Now, fast-forward a decade. Carrie Kennedy, a fisheries scientist for Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, is getting married. Like most weddings, hers will have a buffet of chicken and fish.

'But the fish we're going to have is going to be snakehead,' she says."

Sabri Ben-Achour reports for NPR's All Things Considered May 9, 2012.

Source: NPR, 05/10/2012