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Maryland offering $200 gift cards for snakehead fish Getting paid to fish sounds like a dream come true to some. But does it have the same appeal if you're going up against a "fish from hell" that can travel on land and sink its teeth into a steel-toed boot? The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Inland Fisheries (DNR) is hoping so and is offering $200 gift cards through Bass Pro Shops to residents who capture and kill a snakehead, an invasive species from Africa that is upsetting the natural order of the local ecosystem. ... Read the full story at link . Photo credit: AP/Ed Wray ------------------------------------------------------ Bill aims to combat invasive species By CHRIS MORRIS - Staff Writer Adirondack Daily Enterprise A bill introduced in the [New York] state Senate last week aims to make the possession and sale of invasive species illegal. The legislation is sponsored by state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury. Its goal is to strengthen current regulations ...

Updated 10/29/09. Latest news is at the bottom of the post. -------------------------------------------------------- Brazilian water-weed success story from Washington State CHRISTIAN HILL; The Olympian The NewsTribune.com Officials hope they've finally eradicated a noxious plant choking a stretch of the Chehalis River in south Thurston County, WA more than 10 years after it was discovered there. The Thurston County Noxious Weed Control Board completed the annual removal of Brazilian elodea ( Egeria densa ) from the salmon-bearing river at the end of September and could find no remaining trace of the plant. It will continue to monitor the river, and the plant will be deemed eradicated if there’s no evidence of its return in the next three years, said Rick Johnson, Thurston County’s noxious weed coordinator. “We’re thrilled we’re in front of it instead of playing catch-up,” he said. Brazilian elodea is a pesky plant. Rooting in waters up to 20 feet deep, the dark-green, fast-growin...