Aquarium fish don’t belong in lakes and rivers. Two anglers in different states recently made headlines for catching large goldfish in the wild. While this was likely an exciting moment for them, ...

Pet fish are not wild fish. City officials in Burnsville, Minnesota, recently tweeted out a warning against dumping pet fish in the wild after a large number of goldfish were found in one of the ...

“They grow bigger than you think and contribute to poor water quality,” officials said. Officials in nearby Carver County last year removed as many as 50,000 goldfish from local waterways in a single ...

Goldfish can grow to large sizes, reproduce quickly, decrease water quality and gobble up the resources native species need to survive when released into a body of water bigger than a fishbowl. The ...

The city of Burnsville has an urgent message for Minnesotans: Stop dumping your goldfish into the state’s waterways. In a now-viral tweet posted on July 9, the city shared photos of goldfish: A ...

They look fake, but we assure you, they are real and they are not spectacular for area lakes and rivers. Giant goldfish continue to show up in waterways in the Great Lakes region, causing a potential ...

Fisheries officials in Canada are sharing images of monstrous goldfish pulled from a Lake Ontario waterway and begging the public to stop releasing aquarium fish into the wild. “Ever wonder what ...

Pet fish are not wild fish. City officials in Burnsville, Minnesota, recently tweeted out a warning against dumping pet fish in the wild after a large number of goldfish were found in one of the ...

On May 22nd, 2021, Jeremy Fortner from Chesterfield, Virginia arrowed a 3 pound, 9 ounce goldfish from Hunting Creek, a Virginia tributary of the Potomac River. Virginia Department of Wildlife ...