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Football-sized goldfish found in Burnsville [MN] lake, prompting plea not to dump pets
Star Tribune ^
| JULY 12, 2021
| Erin Adler
Posted on 07/14/2021 9:35:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Burnsville officials found 10 fish, some a foot long, in Keller Lake earlier this month while surveying the fish population as part of a water quality project. On Monday, a second trip yielded 18 more fish, some 18 inches long and estimated to weigh about 4 pounds.
The proliferation of the bright orange fish, which don't naturally live in Minnesota waters, is a problem that's plagued communities around the metro as pet owners seeking a humane next chapter for their pets — which hail from east Asia and are a smaller cousin of the common carp — end up adding an invasive creature to their local waterways. It is illegal in Minnesota to release goldfish into waterways.
Goldfish, which reproduce rapidly and have few natural predators, impair water quality by feeding along lake floors, disrupting plants and stirring up sediment, which in turn releases phosphorus into the water, encouraging algae growth. The fish also compete with native species for food.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: burnsville; goldfish; koi; minnesota
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:35:36 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Open borders, open beaches?
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: Don Corleone
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:40:30 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
To: All
How it all starts...
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:43:10 AM PDT
by
FLNittany
To: BenLurkin
Goldfish, which reproduce rapidly and have few natural predators
What a bunch of bull $hit. They make damn good catfish and bass bait. We use them all the time down here in the south for that.
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:45:11 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
To: BenLurkin
HOLY CARP!........................
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:47:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:48:28 AM PDT
by
VastRWCon
(Fake News")
To: eastforker
Don't they get soggy?....How do you keep them on the hook?.................
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:49:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: eastforker
Yep...a number of years ago my Grandmother loaded her back yard pond with gold fish and
the green and blue herons had it completely cleaned out in less than a week.
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:49:52 AM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: BenLurkin
Muskies, tiger muskies, and pike, tear them to pieces. Jeeze.
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:51:05 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:52:08 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: BenLurkin
Goldfish, which reproduce rapidly and have few natural predators, impair water quality by feeding along lake floors, disrupting plants and stirring up sediment, which in turn releases phosphorus into the water, encouraging algae growth. The fish also compete with native species for food. How do they like the Minnesota winter? Since they feed on the lake floor do they just shrug off the freezing temps?
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posted on
07/14/2021 9:53:50 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: blackdog
Don’t forget the turtles.
To: blackdog
I had a friend in elementary school that caught a big, really big, blue gill. He brought it home and put it in an aquarium. After school we’d go to the 5 & 10, buy goldfish and feed them to it. It would just about swallow them whole.
To: BenLurkin
I’m thinking they would taste good. Butter, salt, pepper, lemon juice.
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07/14/2021 9:55:48 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them. ~Jonathan Karl)
To: BenLurkin
When it comes to the migration of species there is no stopping it now with thr current levels of global trade and travel. it’s more of a government jobs program than anything.
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posted on
07/14/2021 10:01:20 AM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: eastforker
Exactly.
Fish don’t look at a smaller fish and wonder if it looks like fish they’re used to eating or not.
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posted on
07/14/2021 10:02:07 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: eastforker
"What a bunch of bull $hit. They make damn good catfish and bass bait. We use them all the time down here in the south for that. You are right. There is a reason fishing lures are often brightly colored, it attracts fish. I wish environmentalists would "follow the science". Very few goldfish survive to that size in the wild because of predation.
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posted on
07/14/2021 10:06:04 AM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/14/2021 10:19:27 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: BenLurkin
at least it was identifiable when caught...
i remember when the first snakehead fish was caught in a maryland pond and the guy that caught it released it because he didn’t recognize it...
dnr tried shocking the water and finally ended up draining the pond to eradicate it...
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posted on
07/14/2021 10:20:52 AM PDT
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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