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Maryland DNR offers cash for snags of tagged snakehead fish in area waters

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are continuing a northern snakehead tagging program in an effort to spur removal of invasive fish from state waters.

Snakehead fish drawing
Maryland Department of Natural Resources photo

This spring, up to 500 tags will be put on snakeheads from Gunpowder River, upper Chesapeake Bay tributaries, and Mattawoman and Nanjemoy creeks of Potomac River.

Anyone who harvests a tagged snakehead will receive a…