The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

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The northern snakehead is not alone in this ability: Walking catfishes, lungfishes, and betta fish can all breathe air directly as well. Reproduction and rearing young Hochheiser insisted that his client was primarily a businesswoman—that running an underground bank was the extent of her criminal activity. “We’ve got the tail wagging the dog here,” he said. “This is a money business that is being used to tie Cheng Chui Ping to the alien-smuggling business.” In his closing remarks, he invoked Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible.” The various species of snakeheads differ greatly in size; dwarf snakeheads, such as Channa orientalis, do not surpass 25cm (10in) in length. Most other snakeheads reach between 30 and 90cm (12 and 35in). Five species ( C. argus, C. barca, C. marulius, C. micropeltes, and C. striata) can reach 1m (3ft 3in) or more. [2] Essential reading. . . . A rich, beautifully told story, so suspenseful and with so many unexpected twists that in places it reads like a John le Carré novel.”

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Keefe spends a fair amount of time describing the transport conditions of the immigrants who risked their lives trying to reach the US. Some hiked through the malaria infested jungle of Burma to Thailand Snakehead" (Chinese: 蛇頭; pinyin: shé tóu) is the Chinese term for gangs involved in smuggling people. Murray, A. M.; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2008). "Eocene actinopterygian fishes from Pakistan, with the description of a new genus and species of channid (channiformes)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28: 41–52. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[41:EAFFPW]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85925173. New York’s established Cantonese community saw the Fujianese as strivers and peasants. The Fujianese dialect is incomprehensible to Cantonese and Mandarin speakers, so the fledgling community was doubly isolated—a ghetto within a ghetto. East Broadway became known as “Fuzhou Street,” and the Chinatown shorthand for new arrivals was “eighteen-thousand-dollar men,” after the snakehead rate in the eighties. As his account makes clear, the promises that Sister Ping made were brutal and sometimes fatal, but they were not empty. The stinking hold of the cargo ship represented a better possibility than other futures. At a time when our newspapers are full of stories of people smuggling, this book is a reminder of the element of that tale that is too easily overlooked: the absolute determination of the people who temporarily sell their fate to the criminal gangs. As Radden Keefe’s book implies, those people will ultimately not be deterred by legislation or law enforcement. Sister Ping was a facilitator, not a driver of that ambition. Her “clients” were among the most resourceful individuals on the planet. Most of those people originally deported after the Golden Venture tragedy, writes Radden Keefe, eventually found a way to return to New York.The 1848 discovery of gold in California and abundance of land attracted Cantonese laborers and fortune seekers. Free passage was provided in exchange for indentured work. The construction of the trans-continental railroad brought many thousands of Chinese workers, until the west was flooded with US migrants after the Civil War. In direct competition for employment the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ended immigration and the Chinese retreated to restaurant and laundry businesses. FDR repealed the Act in 1943 as a concession to Chinese allies in WWII but Mao’s victory in 1949 curtailed further immigration.

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They are valuable as a food source and have become notorious as an intentionally released invasive species. These fish have been kept as pets but as they get larger, people let them go into ponds, lakes, and rivers, making these fish invasive.Snakeheads became a national news topic in the United States because of the appearance of C. argus, commonly known as northern snakeheads, spawning in a Crofton, Maryland, pond in 2002. [8] Northern snakeheads became permanently established in the Potomac River around 2004, [10] and possibly established in Florida. [8] In about 120mi (190km) of river, the population has surpassed 21,000 individuals. [11]