How are goldfish caught in the wild and sold for aquariams?
By crittercare in Fish on November 23rd, 2009
I looked at a lot of sites trying to find how people exactly catch goldfish and where do they come from. I would like to know how they are caught, and if possible, have a link to the site where you found your information (I’m mainly looking for the link specifically).
Thanks!
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11/23/2009 at 9:23 am
Goldfish are not caught from the wild.
Actually, goldfish are a colour morph/mutated form of carp(a naturally brown fish). The goldfish that you see in stores are bred in ponds, the nicer varieties are usually bred over seas, in Asia.
11/23/2009 at 9:27 am
fancy goldfish you find at fish stores are bred in special fish farms. they are not caught in the wild…
11/23/2009 at 10:10 am
Mainly in China, Japan and the Asian Countries.
But most goldfish sold are bred in goldfish farms, and I don’t think goldfish are wild caught anymore.
(“‘(o.o)/”‘)
11/23/2009 at 11:06 am
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How did the breeders get their fish??
11/23/2009 at 11:46 am
As of late there is the possibilty to catch goldfish and koi in the wilds of Asia because people have (accidentally) released them into the water system and they have bred, but slowly these reform into the original carp shape (might take a couple hundred generations but it gets there) through natural selection.
The goldfish you find in your fish stores are mass produced in giant asian and florida fish farms. These are places filled with large screen covered cement ponds that are solely there to breed the fish and raise them to a saleable size.
However, some Koi are still wild caught, or as wild as possible. There have been the fancier types in Japan’s water systems for decades because of floods and human release.
11/23/2009 at 12:33 pm
Goldfish are not wild fish, they are fish from Asia that are bred.
11/23/2009 at 12:58 pm
Goldfish are not wild fish. They are an extremely domesticated breed which is over 1000 years removed from its wild ancestors although they can still interbreed with wild carp just as dogs are far removed from wolves but can still interbreed with them. Also like domestic dogs, they can be artificially introduced into an ecosystem. They are ornamental descendants of carp that were used as part of a fish rice aquaculture plan in medieval China. The fish would be added to the paddies where they would eat pests and help to fertilize the rice. Afterwards, when the paddies were drained, the people could supplement their diet with some nice fattened carp (something you should be sure to tell anyone who says goldfish don’t get that big). Eventually, they noticed that some fish had a mutation which caused them to become gold or orange. Those fish were removed to ornamental ponds where they were less likely to fall prey to predators. Hundreds of years past before they started developing the double tailed fancy varieties. As for how they were caught, The wild ancestors of the goldfish were probably grabbed with cast nets, the same as any other fish.