Caught someone's pet.........

[alexpie001]

did you keep it ???????????????

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

Exactly.

Exactly what?

 

[knifegill]

Goldfish in lake = bloated abdomen. Most wild fish, especially fish that either are carp or fill carp-like roles, acquire a variety of intestinal and other internal parasites. These don't immediately kill the fish because the parasitic progeny are free to wander off and die or find new hosts. In the aquarium, this means death because the original host is the only viable option for many of the little swimmers and they accumulate and kill the host. But in the wild, the host may carry several parasites for many years without dying.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

I let it go bro.........

way to help the natural ecosystem pal.

 

[BODYDUB]

Haha, did the fish give you a good fight?

Not really, I think the initial hook set by my son shook the life out of him........

way to help the natural ecosystem pal.

I didn't eventhink about that........
It's pretty amazing to see someone else catch one.....

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

Why remove it? Just let it go. Killing this single, lonely goldfish isnt going to make a difference whatsoever in the "ecosystem" . Where I caught my 2 at, there are at least 2 or 3 more, including one that is white which I want bad. These guys dont reproduce to take over nothing. They arent like silver carp that do cause problems. I'm sure someone will be happy to catch him later on as well.

 

[MN_Rebel]

way to help the natural ecosystem pal.

what the single giant goldfish do to the ecosystem? I just dont see them as serious invasive species as the common/asian carp.

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

what the single giant goldfish do to the ecosystem? I just dont see them as serious invasive species as the common/asian carp.

Ditto...

A lake I go to, this guy asked me what I caught and he seen it, he came down to me, told me to put it on the ground so he could smash it with his shovel, WTF?? I let him go and every one after. That guys an idiot. He said those things don’t belong in here, they are nasty, etc. Dude, this fish isn’t bothering anyone and sure as heck aint bothering you and you don’t even fish. Just don’t understand people sometimes, yes that fish wasn’t naturally born there, etc but so what, he isn’t hurting anyone, not costing anyone a single penny, not eating other fish, not attacking swimmers, not eating the ducks, not eating all the vegetation, so why not? If that was a silver carp and it had over taken the lake, then that’s a different story but it’s not.

About them SH, yes they don’t belong here either but they are here and here to stay, like it or not. You can’t eradicate a fish from thousands of miles of rivers, creek, etc such as a SH, they aren’t as sensitive as other fish; don’t require to swim upstream like some fish to spawn, etc. They are here, for good. I predict in about 20 years if they are able to make it to all the states, rivers, ponds, etc and are as common as bass, there will be an industry for them, just as there is for bass.

You can’t have the imports of fish for us to enjoy in our houses without the potential for so called invasive species. Look at the peacock bass in Florida, when they got in the ecosystem what did they say?? The same thing they are saying about other fish now. Look at the fish now, it’s doing great in FL, people love to fish for them, people pay $$ to fish for them, etc. FL actually put this non-native fish into FL to eat other non-native fish such as Oscars. Well FL still has a ton of Oscars and now some dang good peacock bass fishing. If any fish that is released is a hardy fish, can adapt to our environment pretty much the day it was released, then we will always have this issue.

KY is reintroducing Alligator Gar in Western KY, they were once native fish till we killed them and the dams went up, you should here all the issues people are having with that, and it’s a native non-invasive species.

 

[fisher12889]

Why remove it? Just let it go. Killing this single, lonely goldfish isnt going to make a difference whatsoever in the "ecosystem" . Where I caught my 2 at, there are at least 2 or 3 more, including one that is white which I want bad. These guys dont reproduce to take over nothing. They arent like silver carp that do cause problems. I'm sure someone will be happy to catch him later on as well.

what the single giant goldfish do to the ecosystem? I just dont see them as serious invasive species as the common/asian carp.

Ditto...

A lake I go to, this guy asked me what I caught and he seen it, he came down to me, told me to put it on the ground so he could smash it with his shovel, WTF?? I let him go and every one after. That guys an idiot. He said those things don’t belong in here, they are nasty, etc. Dude, this fish isn’t bothering anyone and sure as heck aint bothering you and you don’t even fish. Just don’t understand people sometimes, yes that fish wasn’t naturally born there, etc but so what, he isn’t hurting anyone, not costing anyone a single penny, not eating other fish, not attacking swimmers, not eating the ducks, not eating all the vegetation, so why not? If that was a silver carp and it had over taken the lake, then that’s a different story but it’s not.

About them SH, yes they don’t belong here either but they are here and here to stay, like it or not. You can’t eradicate a fish from thousands of miles of rivers, creek, etc such as a SH, they aren’t as sensitive as other fish; don’t require to swim upstream like some fish to spawn, etc. They are here, for good. I predict in about 20 years if they are able to make it to all the states, rivers, ponds, etc and are as common as bass, there will be an industry for them, just as there is for bass.

You can’t have the imports of fish for us to enjoy in our houses without the potential for so called invasive species. Look at the peacock bass in Florida, when they got in the ecosystem what did they say?? The same thing they are saying about other fish now. Look at the fish now, it’s doing great in FL, people love to fish for them, people pay $$ to fish for them, etc. FL actually put this non-native fish into FL to eat other non-native fish such as Oscars. Well FL still has a ton of Oscars and now some dang good peacock bass fishing. If any fish that is released is a hardy fish, can adapt to our environment pretty much the day it was released, then we will always have this issue.

KY is reintroducing Alligator Gar in Western KY, they were once native fish till we killed them and the dams went up, you should here all the issues people are having with that, and it’s a native non-invasive species.

You guys are kidding right? You don't see the danger of an illegally introduced, non-native aquarium fish? Just because he only caught one, doesn't mean more arent in there. Goldfish are one species that CAN live and reproduce across America, they are very hardy fish, and will compete with other species in the lake. You can't say they don't, they take food and space from every other fish in the lake. They could also introduce diseases and parasites that our native fish can't stand up to. You are very ignorant to think that it is ok for these fish to be living wild in America.

 

[knifegill]

I know if I caught a goldfish, you couldn't pay me to reintroduce it. Just too darned illegal. I'd probably take it home, deworm it, and give to a local pet store. Or kill it, but that would suck.