By Bob Frye Henry Veggian took one look at the fish -- with its large scales, bony head, and long, single dorsal fin -- hanging on the wall at Tackle Unlimited in Jefferson Hills and thought he was seeing an alien. It had to have come from Europe, he thought, or perhaps Asia.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ A lazy Sunday afternoon, Mother's Day, like many Barry Faw had spent fishing on Lake Wylie.

By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Jun. 1--A lazy Sunday afternoon, Mother's Day, like many Barry Faw had spent fishing on Lake Wylie.

By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. May 31--The northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's nearly a yard long, gobbles most anything and can survive awhile out of water, has again been reported in Lake Wylie.

At the moment, a third of the Chesapeake Bay is too sick to support life. The Bays oxygen-starved dead zones caused by algae blooms fed by nitrogen and phosphorous from farms, sewage plants, and lawns have become an annual environmental catastrophe.