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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
More to This Fish Story
Crofton Pauses While Local Pond Lingers in News
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By Anita Huslin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 25, 2002; Page SM04
The camera crews are gone, the morning game of musical parking spaces is over, and a bright orange plastic fence festooned with yellow "No Trespassing" signs blocks the dirt path leading to the now-famous Crofton fishing hole.
All in all, it's a dramatically different scene compared with the site earlier this month, when news crews from as far away as Canada descended on a pond behind an Anne Arundel County shopping center to see where a nonnative, invasive fish had been found.
Joe Gillespie, the Crofton angler who caught the first northern snakehead three weeks ago and then netted a bunch of snakehead babies, was lying low, perhaps having had his fill of the limelight.
The more than 80 baby fish that Maryland Department of Natural Resource biologists caught were now either on ice or formaldehyde or had been shipped to a laboratory in Florida for identification.
Now all that's left is for the experts to deal with the scores of other northern snakeheads presumably still in the pond. A poison is being tested, and barriers are being suggested between the pond and the Little Patuxent River. Earlier this week U.S. Interior Secretary Gail Norton proposed an import ban on 28 species of the fish, which is native to China's Yangtze River.
In the fevered media pitch of their discovery, the creatures' proportions and behavior reached near-mythic descriptions: " 'Frankenfish' mystery explained -- Voracious intruder on the loose" read one headline; "Snakehead Fish Ravages Maryland Pond" blared another; and "Pond critter is big, nasty and can walk" warned a Canadian paper.
Biologists said they do consider the fish a threat because it is known to prey on other fish and can clear a pond in a short time. The voracious, air-breathing, ground-slithering fish is known to upset the natural order by eating virtually everything -- plant and animal -- within its reach.
The pond where the snakeheads were discovered is behind the Route 3 Shopping Center. And threatened is just how shopping center employees felt about the shouting headlines, jostling television crews and parade of publicity-seekers that thronged around the pond.
"Fish? I don't know anything about the fish!" snapped one employee of a nearby bank who neither wanted to discuss the matter nor identify herself.
Pond property owner Danny MacQuilliam, who tried to maintain as low a profile as possible through all the hubbub, was relieved one day last week when no television camera trucks invaded the parking lot, no state Department of Natural Resources trucks showed up and no reporters crowded around the pond.
"It's too bad, because there are folks who have been able to enjoy fishing there for a long time," MacQuilliam said. But because of liability concerns and at the request of state officials, he and an employee hammered up the bright orange plastic mesh fence to keep the public out.
By last week, though, there already were signs that some people would not be denied; the fence was squashed down in one place where someone obviously had stepped over it.
"My kids thought I was crazy for not having bumper stickers, T-shirts and hats made up with this fish on it," MacQuilliam said. "If that was my 15 minutes of fame, I guess I blew it. But I'd rather not have it that way."
At first, MacQuilliam said, he was puzzled by the world's fascination with the fish. He got calls from friends all along the East Coast wanting to know if they were found in his pond.
Yes, it was his pond, he told them. No, there's no "Snakehead Crossing" signs yet, he added.
But one of his sons did suggest he at least give the fishing hole a name:
Walking Fish Pond.
MacQuilliam said he'd think about it.
© 2002 The Washington Post Company
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