Just a bit of information from my trips down there. Snakeheads are illegal to possess alive, if you do catch them you have to kill them if you are going to possess them. Catch and release has been going on for a few years so you would he hard pressed to find someone to prosecute this. There are even guides down there that specialize in fishing for them along with peacocks and regular largemouths/smallmouths. It is what it is and trust me if it was a show and illegal, thousands of folks down in Fl would have already been calling it in.