People in Indonesia are concerned about how landscape changes in the South Sumatra province are affecting the Musi River Basin and the availability of the popular freshwater snakehead murrel fish.

The northern snakehead was caught last month in a drainage pool at Duck Creek Conservation Area. The last time one of the so-called "Frankenfish" showed up in Missouri was four years ago ...

Now, it has declared Murrel fish as the state fish. The murrel (Channa striatus), is a species of snakehead fish. It is popular among asthma patients, as Hyderabad’s Bathina family provides fish ...

“They’re sold all year, but there are more buyers during the fasting month,” Plaju resident Nining told Mongabay Indonesia, referring to the mudfish, or snakehead murrel (Channa striata ...