in wild its different story , they are not that easy target , water is deeper and more places to hide and run in comparison to restricted small pond , also i read that the goldfishes are very adaptive and hardy that they can survive in worst waterquality and extreme cold warm climate , they can eat alot and any thing , that makes them invasive , there rate of growth and spawning is very high too even if they are eaten by predators stil they remain abundant . this makes other competitor fishes at riskA scrummy snack for herons, foxes, mink, otter, kingfishers, snakes and umpteen native game fish when they find them
hmm all these things are more likely to happen in shallow small ponds , but not at macro level in lakes , riversat dawn, during low pressure systems they will be gasping at the surface and any cat, fox, heron, snake will have easy pickings
Native game fish will grow amazingly big and fast living large on such a banquet
During harsh winters the pond will ice over and snow blot all light out, all the organic stuff and algae, submerged aquatics doing a mass die off will kill every single one of them
at dawn, during low pressure systems they will be gasping at the surface and any cat, fox, heron, snake will have easy pickings
Native game fish will grow amazingly big and fast living large on such a banquet
During harsh winters the pond will ice over and snow blot all light out, all the organic stuff and algae, submerged aquatics doing a mass die off will kill every single one of them
Beautiful , are people allowed to catch them ?Not necessarily. We have self-sustaining goldfish populations in several bodies of water in Minnesota, including very large ponds where you think they would be easy targets.
Here's a picture I took this spring of a local urban pond that has had goldfish for years despite a healthy population of cormorants, herons, egrets, etc. (there were about three times as many fish than this; I just captured a section of them):
Not necessarily. We have self-sustaining goldfish populations in several bodies of water in Minnesota, including very large ponds where you think they would be easy targets.
Here's a picture I took this spring of a local urban pond that has had goldfish for years despite a healthy population of cormorants, herons, egrets, etc. (there were about three times as many fish than this; I just captured a section of them):
Beautiful , are people allowed to catch them ?
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