Thousands of gold fish have been removed from a pond in Cobourg, Ont. on Friday November 14, 2014. Postmedia
Posted on 09/28/2017 7:01:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Leah Kongsrude, St. Albert's environment director, says she's seen captured goldfish up to 30 centimetres in length, compared to ones sold by pet stores that measure only about two centimetres
ST. ALBERT, Alta. — Workers have dipped nets and a naturally occurring chemical into a storm water retention pond near Edmonton in a bid to kill thousands of unwanted goldfish that have made the water body home.
Officials say the aquatic invaders are the result of goldfish reproducing after people released their unwanted pets into the wild or flushed them down the toilet.
Leah Kongsrude, St. Albert’s environment director, says she’s seen captured goldfish up to 30 centimetres in length, compared to ones sold by pet stores that measure only about two centimetres.
Kongsrude says goldfish are hardy and can out-compete naturally occurring species for food.
Crews used nets on Tuesday to remove the reddish-gold swimmers and also applied the chemical, Rotenone, which is used to remove unwanted fish species from fresh water.
The pond will be checked later on to determine whether the cull was successful, and workers will also watch another nearby body of water to determine whether goldfish have taken up residence there.
Kongsrude said the city is lucky the fish are just in the pond and not in the Sturgeon River, which flows through St. Albert.
“We pumped this pond down and froze it right to the bottom in the winter and they were back in the spring. So they can live with very limited oxygen and low water temperatures.”
Officials are also reminding residents to not release any fish into any pond or body of water in Alberta — including flushing Goldie down the sewer.
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Thousands of gold fish have been removed from a pond in Cobourg, Ont. on Friday November 14, 2014. Postmedia
We made a pond in our yard years ago, and added those 50 cent tiny goldfish to it, and they did grow half a foot long. Those that made it. Lol.
And they all claim to want to “feed the homeless and the poor” or whatever it is this week. Well, they just wasted a viable food source for them.
So, how do they taste?
We have these giant goldfish at the zoo in Omaha, and saw them a couple weeks ago at the gardens at Thanksgiving Point in Utah, where they sold food pellets for people to feed them. I think it is fairly common to see these in public places.
It is my understanding that a lot of those “fish tank” fish will grow as big as their environment allows.
Alternatively, perhaps all the fish would be consumed if officials would simply release the Kraken.
Wow! Can you imagine how big they’d get if you put them in Lake Superior?
I have heard that a fish never stops growing.....................
They need to import some blue herons from Florida and the Gulf coast.
Those fishe would be gone in no time.
Bastards ate about a $100 of my koi!.................
That’s some fish bowl.
Rotenone was the first thing I thought of when I started reading this.
I think they’re carp. We used to eatyou carp when I was a kid, it wasn’t bad, people get grossed out by it but, it was a regular fish on our table (usually baked as mom baked everything). We ate trout and bass, perch and stuff like that (I fished alot), but carps were there occasionally and they were coming out to clean pond so there was nothing wrong with them. Gold fish have scales and fins and they taste okay. They taste better than catfish as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve also heard that either alligators or crocodiles are essentially immortal, but apparently they can get so big that they can’t eat enough food to keep them alive so they starve to death, if some other animal doesn’t kill them first.
Apparently medical research is being done on them because of this property, with the idea that we could apply it to humans. The immortality part, that is.
If you use Comets they will get even bigger and will eventually be only one left. They are very territorial..............
Uh, ..... like fish?.......................
I love breaded catfish.
I lived in Seattle for 46 years and, though I’ve always liked salmon, I got my fill of it there. Now I live in KY and get to start on a whole new fish. Lots of fish fries around here.
I’ve heard that you don’t want to put a freshly caught and filleted catfish on the hot hood of your car, though. You’ll see all the worms crawling out of it and it can put you off your lunch. :)
Uh, ..... like fish?.......................
I didn’t know about the immortality part with fish.
here is one of those fish.
One day I want another pond and I’d love to cultivate koi. It’s a bucket list thing for me.
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