A town in Minnesota has found a creative way to use the influx of invasive goldfish in a local lake — feeding them to zoo animals.
Pet goldfish dumped into Lake Cornelia in Edina completely took over, even mutating into much larger versions. The Daily Mail reported that in 2023, about 50,000 of the critters were removed from the lake, and so far this year, there have been over 8,500. The most shocking part is that “despite the number dramatically falling, the total weight of the catches remains about the same as some of the goldfish have mutated and doubled in size,” per the Mail.
The lake is currently unusable for residents who once enjoyed utilizing it for recreation and fishing. Edina Water Resources intern Peter Mans said he spent his summer “standing in a ‘writhing mass of fish'” in efforts to clean up the lake, the Mail added…