SCAR layer of SNAKEHEAD, by it on the plate

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A SNAKEHEAD is filleted for a dinner hosted this week by the oyster recovery partnership.

John Rorapaugh

A SNAKEHEAD is filleted for a dinner hosted this week by the oyster recovery partnership.

If you can't em beat, eat you em.

This is the battle cry for environmentalists that setting are cooks - and fillet knives and pans - to combat invasive species.

The latest target of SNAKEHEAD fish, an aggressive animal has after Asia and Africa, which was the waterways of Maryland and Florida with alarming speed in the last decade population. A predator eating fish as large dominated rivers and Lakes such as perch and bass, the SNAKEHEAD location, as soon as they are.

But this week of the SNAKEHEAD went aquatic pest to delicacy on a fundraiser for an Annapolis-based environmental organisation, the oyster recovery partnership. Nine prominent chefs - including national geographic fellow Barton Seaver - grilled, fried, grilled pale fillets and served them then a curious audience.

 

That dressed until dinner plate strategy was in trying to invasive species to eliminate, or at least contain. And there are varying degrees of success.

It was difficult with some problematic fish such as the Asian Carp, which has over the Mississippi River, which people to customize their palate of the environment's sake. And coral reef defenders still hope that the appetite for lionfish will take effect.

But that's no problem with the SNAKEHEAD. A traditional cuisine in Viet Nam and Thailand is SNAKEHEAD, among others. And John Rorapaugh, Vice President for sustainable initiatives on Profish, a seafood company based in Washington, D.C., describes the fish as a "Very clean tasting, mild, and just a great, great delicacy."

In the past, Maryland Department of natural resources, or MDNR has tried, drain and poison the ponds of SNAKEHEAD to stop spreading.

However, Rorapaugh hopes that convincingly by commercial fishermen to pursue and to market the fish markets will be more effective fish. The biggest challenge is contagious because it usually in large schools not gather.

Promoting this particular fish as a food source removal is an ironic choice strategies, because ", which is unfortunately likely as they have here from the outset", Donald Cosden of MDNR says the salt. The U.S. fish and Wildlife Service is, list the probable cause of SNAKEHEAD branch in the United States as "individuals release these fish produce a local food source."

While Rorapaugh is hoping that fillets to sell in local grocery stores, he says SNAKEHEAD, that there are no plans, a genuine fisheries set up. "I would be very happy to sell, sell, sell, sell, and then have no longer to sell," he says. In the meantime, he says, recreational anglers can help by looking for fish in rivers such as the Potomac where the SNAKEHEAD has set up shop.

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Pain At The Plate: Heat Increases Pitcher Retaliation

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Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers is hit by a pitch from the Tampa Bay Rays' James Shields on Oct. 1 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.

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Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers is hit by a pitch from the Tampa Bay Rays' James Shields on Oct. 1 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.

Richard Larrick has been bothered by something for two decades.

"Twenty years ago, I'd done a paper with some graduate students just showing that in hotter temperatures, pitchers are more likely to hit batters with pitches," says Larrick, a professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Was it because they would sweat more, and the ball might get slippery and hard to control? Or was it something intentional?

"Laboratory research has shown that if you put people in a hotter room, they're more likely to act aggressively toward someone else," sometimes without even being aware of it, he says.

Because ballgames aren't played in a lab, Larrick looked through 50 years of baseball statistics to see if he could see the effect of temperature on aggressive behavior.

"We can look at every game and every plate appearance, and just look at what the chances are of a batter being hit," he says. As he reported in the journal Psychological Science, there was a definite pattern. Pitchers were more likely to hit a batter if earlier in the game, one of their teammates had been hit. But that's not all.

It's been known for years that when temperatures are hotter, pitchers are more likely to hit batters with pitches. A new study finds that heat also increases a pitcher's likelihood of retaliating by hitting an opposing batter when players from his team were hit earlier in the game.

The chart below shows a batter's percent chance of being hit in a plate appearance, depending on the number of players that have been hit on the pitcher's team and the gametime temperature.

"It seems to be that the main thing that changes with temperature is the desire to retaliate for my teammate being hit," says Larrick. He says that fits well with what his laboratory research shows about people in hot rooms. "The same thing that someone else does to me, that could be ambiguous, whether it was designed to hurt me or not, is more likely to be interpreted as having hostile intent, which then provokes me to want to retaliate for it."

Larrick doesn't know for sure if his theory about retaliation is correct. All he has to go on is the numbers. "I don't actually have any, any idea if this resonates with the players themselves," he says.

"I think there could be something to that," says Billy Ripken, a former major league player who is now an analyst for MLB Network. He says as a batter, you rarely know whether a pitcher has hit you on purpose. "If you may be given a choice of saying, 'Was that an accident or was it not an accident?' and you're a little bit irritable, you might say, 'You know what? I don't care. I didn't like it.' "

And there's no question that for baseball players, the dog days of summer can be annoying. "When you're playing in Baltimore, New York, Atlanta in the middle of the summer, it's 95 degrees and 95 percent humidity, it's pretty miserable," says Ripken.

But Ripken's colleague at MLB Network, Dan Plesac, has another explanation for Larrick's data. Plesac was a major league pitcher for 17 years. He says it's a mistake to think that pitchers retaliate right away. Sometimes things happen early in the season against a particular team when, for whatever reason, you'd like to retaliate but can't.

"So you kinda put that in your file of, 'OK, the next time we play them there or they come to our place ... we're not going to forget what happened in April or May,' " says Plesac. And frequently, that second meeting is in the middle of the summer.

Is Plesac right? You don't hear this too often in sports stories, but the answer probably is that more research is needed.

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