'Dangerous' Goldfish Spotted

[Elton]

Full story here:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/News/dangerous_goldfish.html

[Mark Crame]

Full story here:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/News/dangerous_goldfish.html

 

 

Damn thing - I saw it eat a cow that was drinking.

[Chris Plumb]

Introduce a few pike - won't hide for long!

 

 

C.

[nomadpaul]

There has also been sights of a '10ft bubbling diver' and 'a sunken castle'

Edited May 9, 2007 by nomadpaul

[chesters1]

"This interbreeding threatens the native population of pure crucian carp. Goldfish can also carry diseases and parasites that are not normally present in wild fish populations."

 

youl find that most "crucian" nowadays are infact brown goldfish of which some will turn gold

strange the EA turn blind eyes to that

 

my local has many introductions from probably fishtanks and they enhance the water ,the koi for one are sought after but rarely caught and the 3lb ish goldfish (from a "crucian" stocking) are nice additions to the net on occasion.

if the EA cant spot brown goldfish instead of crucian how can they say any fish are healthy seeing as most parasites or deseases are microscopic

Edited May 9, 2007 by chesters1

[gozzer]

Spot on, chesters. That's been my worry for a long time now.

I know I rabbit on about the indiscriminate, over stocking with carp, but it's strange that the EA should only express their concerns now, and not before.

 

John.

[Alan Hammond]

I caught a goldfish in one of my club waters a few years back. When I mentioned it on the then club site I was told that it had probably come in with a stocking of crucians as carp breeders often add goldfish to their breeding stock to help boost the strength of the strain and avoid too much in breeding.

[rooney888]

Well they can't do to much to the enviroment as pool by me is one of the higest popualted pools ive see, probably is the best stocked pool ive seen and not a single fish has been introdued by any club and shos that allowing natural popullating is best.

In the summer you can throw a piece of bread in and have possibly 200 carp of around 1lb and the pool has probably a popullation of a 1000 goldfish as in the summr months the pool is covered in orange dots of small and big goldfish.

The pool also has a thiving number of crusians there probably the higest populated fish in thepool, they seem to be all true crusians lovely golden. The only thing i fins strange about the pool is you cant catch a tench bigger than 3 inches, its the only place i know you catch tench this small, i read in an angling times it was rare that a fisherman would catch a fish that small in there lifetime, well if thast the case the should come here i catch around 30 tench under 3 inches ever time i go.

 

So i dont reckon goldfish harm the enviroment may even benefit it with the way this pool looks..

Edited May 10, 2007 by rooney888