Photo: City of Burnsville, Minnesota - Municipal Government/Facebook
The city of Burnsville, Minnesota, has a unique request for its residents: stop releasing your pet fish into local lakes and ponds.
Burnsville put out the ask in a Facebook postwhich the city shared on July 9.
“Please don’t release your pet goldfish into ponds and lakes. They grow bigger than you think!” the post, which includes several photos of football-sized goldfish, reads.
“You see goldfish in the store, and they’re these small little fish,” Caleb Ashling, Burnsville’s natural resources specialist, told the outlet. “When you pull a goldfish about the size of a football out of the lake, it makes you wonder how this can even be the same type of animal.”
City of Burnsville, Minnesota - Municipal Government/Facebook
The rise of the giant goldfish isn’t just a Burnsville issue. Carp Solutions, the water pest management company that assisted with the city’s survey toldThe Washington Postthat cities and towns across the country have been working to battle goldfish infestations.
For those who have a pet fish that they can no longer care for, Burnsville asks in their Facebook post to “please consider other options for finding them a new home like asking a responsible friend or neighbor to care for it.”
source: people.com
