An angler, fishing for pike on the River Witham near Hykeham, caught a snakehead. This is a monster from south east Asia that can grow up to 3ft long and weigh 44lbs. It can crawl on land and live out of water for up to four days. As you can see it has a mouthful of razor sharp teeth which it uses to eat anything that comes its way.
Snakeheads caused chaos when they were found in America in 2002, with snipers setting up on banksides to shoot them and entire lakes being poisoned to kill them.
It is thought that the predator, which is on a list of species that cannot be imported into the UK had been smuggled in for an aquarium and then illegally released.
The appearance of this fish in one of Britain's rivers has caused panic among anglers and conservationists concerned that if it breeds it will wipe out indigenous stocks of fish from the rivers.
I'm sure I've seen it (or something very much like it) on the fish counter at Mercadona.
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