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The problems caused by the northern snakehead is that many people were scared that this fish would go to the nearby Little Patuxent River, but not by swimming by walking! Yes these fish can live up to three days without a single drop of water at all. Also they eat all types of other fish. After the fish hauled themselves to the Little Patuxent, the snakehead would have no trouble swimming out to the Chesapeake Bay, and then out to the Atlantic Ocean. Then the U.S. government put in motion a ban on importing any species of snakeheads from Asia. Then Biologists began experimenting with a chemical called rotenone to kill the invaders-and unfortunately, a great native fish as well in a small pond. Then state officials put up barriers around the pond to keep the fish from climbing out again and leaving and going to other places.