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Thousands of gold fish have been removed from a pond in Cobourg, Ont. on Friday November 14, 2014. Postmedia

1 posted on 09/28/2017 7:01:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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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.


2 posted on 09/28/2017 7:04:40 AM PDT by Yaelle (Socialism, faithfully implemented, delivers anguish and devastation. - President Trump)
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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.


3 posted on 09/28/2017 7:05:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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So, how do they taste?


4 posted on 09/28/2017 7:05:52 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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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.


5 posted on 09/28/2017 7:06:38 AM PDT by NEMDF
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It is my understanding that a lot of those “fish tank” fish will grow as big as their environment allows.


6 posted on 09/28/2017 7:06:50 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Officials are also reminding residents to not release any fish into any pond or body of water in Alberta

Alternatively, perhaps all the fish would be consumed if officials would simply release the Kraken.

7 posted on 09/28/2017 7:09:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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That’s some fish bowl.


11 posted on 09/28/2017 7:11:20 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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Rotenone was the first thing I thought of when I started reading this.


12 posted on 09/28/2017 7:12:28 AM PDT by rdl6989
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the picture is no help. it's a close of of fish with nothing to provide a sense of scale.

here is one of those fish.


19 posted on 09/28/2017 7:17:26 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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Animals will multiply (and grow) until they are restrained by a predator or the carrying capacity of their environment.

Even if they’re harmless, these fish need to be harvested to establish an equilibrium. They can be added to pet food or to the feedstock of pigs, if they’re unfit for human consumption.

The capitalist system naturally turns lemons into lemonade.


22 posted on 09/28/2017 7:20:12 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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NORK H-Bombs and ICBMs. NFL millionaire whiners hating on America. Mutant goldfish.

The end times are here!


23 posted on 09/28/2017 7:20:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Just put some bass, some pike and walleye in there and they will control the goldfish.


31 posted on 09/28/2017 7:25:46 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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...and also applied the chemical, Rotenone, which is used to remove unwanted fish species from fresh water

uh...um...oh nevermind.
32 posted on 09/28/2017 7:26:23 AM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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“released their unwanted pets into the wild or flushed them down the toilet. “

What kind of septic system goes into a pond? Did the fish make it all the way through the treatment plant and get washed out into a creek that feeds the pond?

WTH?


35 posted on 09/28/2017 7:29:26 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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Aren’t Goldfish just a version of carp? Remembering my history, carp are not native to the Americas but were planted by the US government in the 1870s and 1880s.

They taste OK but have lots of small bones. I understand Israel grows lots of them.


37 posted on 09/28/2017 7:32:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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How can fish in water take over a town.


41 posted on 09/28/2017 7:37:45 AM PDT by Jolla
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So when’s PETA gonna run around in circles naked and flailing their arms in panic?


43 posted on 09/28/2017 7:38:16 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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“Up next, on Insomniac ‘Theatre, The Fish that Ate Toronto.’”


44 posted on 09/28/2017 7:38:40 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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If they got into the wild when people flushed them down the toilet that would mean they don’t process their sewage.


56 posted on 09/28/2017 7:49:05 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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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.

Why do people do this? Releasing pets into the wild is never a good idea. For another example, look at the python issue in Florida.

63 posted on 09/28/2017 7:54:45 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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