NTD:
BURNSVILLE, Minn.—Officials in Minnesota said they’re finding more giant goldfish in waterways, prompting a plea to citizens to stop illegally dumping their unwanted fish into ponds and lakes.
The goldfish, which can grow to the size of a football, compete with native species for food and increase algae in lakes. Officials in the Twin Cities suburb of Burnsville found 10 fish in Keller Lake earlier this month while doing a water quality survey.
On Monday, 18 additional fish were found. Some were 18 inches (46 centimeters) long and weighed about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms).
“Please don’t release your pet goldfish into ponds and lakes!” the city said in a tweet. “They grow bigger than you think and contribute to poor water quality by mucking up the bottom sediments and uprooting plants.” more here
Are they good eating!
There’s a small lake near my house, and I paddle a canoe around it every now and then. Sometimes, a bigass fish comes rolling and splashing out of the water four or five times, going about thirty feet across the water before disappearing. I am no fisherman, but I am told it is a carp, and not native to North America. How it got in this little lake I have no idea, but it’s about four feet long, bigger than anything else in the lake. I hope.
I may beed a bigger boat.
They just need to shut up and quit carping about it. People used to toss their goldfish into Manito pond on Spokane’s South hill all the time but the pond has been rehabbed over the past year and cleaned up rather nicely. We’ll see how soon some knucklehead decides to do it again and toss Goldy back into the pond. Manito Pond also used to have plenty of catfish as well as plenty of wild ducks and Canada geese and turtles and even some bull frogs.
The answer to this is simple.
Have people start dumping their baby gators.. problem solved.
…*some government parasite’s solution
Simple solution…issue NO cost, NO season (i.e., year round), NO limit, NO catch-&-release licenses. Then stand back.
Somewhat like Florida has done with the lion fish.
It’s a Franken Fish , Al Franken
What ever happened to flushing goldfish down the toilet?
There was a former bait shop near me that had a 14″ goldfish mounted on the wall. Caught in a local lake.
The surprise is that a Northern Pike didn’t get it first.
Or replacing your kids dead goldfish (the cat ate it, it died of old age, the kids fed it too much etc.) with another one after it’s taken a swirlie and telling them that it’s still the same goldfish. I’m sure that more than one parent has done this before just to keep peace with their kids over a stupid goldfish. Beta fish are worse, they are totally lethargic and useless.
This is bs.
Carp (includes goldfish) are bottom feeders. They actually eat out the plant junk that chokes up the waterways. Yes they root around and can make the water look at little muddy. If the waterway already has a lot of muck in it.
But they are pretty fish and good eating. Why do we have to get hysterical over preserving “native” leeches and catfish.
This is kinda like the snakehead fish that was “introduced” to the Mid Atlantic by some Asian guy. No limit, kill ’em all.