Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A city in Minnesota wants residents to give their pet goldfish to a "responsible friend" instead of throwing it in a waterway. The ...

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 ...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Officials in Minnesota said they’re finding more giant goldfish in waterways, prompting a plea to citizens to stop illegally dumping their unwanted fish into ponds and lakes.

Goldfish were detected in Big Woods Lake and Lake Hazeltine in 2019 – and Big Woods Lake is “mostly just goldfish” said Jordan Wein of WSB and Associates. A theory is that a pet owner released one or ...

(WJW) — Lake Erie looks like a frozen tundra, but beneath all of that ice goldfish are not only surviving, they may be thriving and growing to massive sizes. Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Goldfish can be an invasive species when reintroduced to the wild The Minnesota city of Burnsville warned residents about releasing pet fish into ponds and lakes after large goldfish were found ...