Posted on 04/07/2015 11:33:21 AM PDT by dware
Colorado wildlife officials say they believe someone dumped four to five pet goldfish in a Boulder lake about two years ago, and they have now multiplied to over 3,000 to 4,000 fish.
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Are they good eating?
Yes. In most of Colorado, such bodies of water are man made reservoirs with creeks or springs trickling into them.
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What a thug!
Goldfish are just carp, which are algae eaters. They’ll keep the lake clean.
Who cares if people want to take them?
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Nothing is going to grow that big in Colorado, the water is too cold.
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Boulder is nothing but wacked out liberals.
No intelligent life in that town.
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I have seen six foot carp in the stilling basin below John Martin Resivor, Colo.
Or flathead catfish.
Given the fact that females spawn several times a year, and can release thousands of eggs per spawn, it is theoretically possible for goldfish to have reproduced at a high enough rate to reach that number in two years (or even sooner). But but lakes/ponds provide far from theoretically ideal circumstances for egg laying, fertilization, hatching, and survival to adulthood of the young fish.
In the wild, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume close to 99% of the eggs released during a spawn would fail to develop in to mature fish.
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Long ones like that are usually stuck in irrigation canals!
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“There probably are no native species...”
Yeah, I was wondering how channel cat could be native to that pond.
Time to get these fish “truncated.”
What would happen if they dumped a bunch of large mouth bass in the lake?
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