No channa in KY. There has NEVER been a single confirmed channa sighting in the wild in KY.

Out of the thirty or so species of Channa, only two or three could ever survive KY winters as they are a tropical species. Also, most channa are very small, usually less than a foot in length.

Unfortunately because the .gov is too stupid to differentiate between Channa argus and Channa maurulia, both popular in the food industry and both now living in U.S. waters vs the dozens of small and brightly colored species that were popular with aquarists they banned them all. Aquarists are NOT the problem when it came to channa, it was the food industry. In fact, Channa argus was a very popular farm fish and raised in Arkansas up until the federal ban.