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“Man Catches 3-Pound Goldfish From Michigan Lake”

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Posted on January 22, 2013 at 01:11 PM in Sports | Permalink

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When they get that big, they're called "carp" or sometimes "golden carp" rather than "goldfish." I recall seeing dozens of them, just as long though not so fat, swimming in the Cambridge River back in Boston in the 1960s.

Not new, in other words. (But always entertaining. And it's different from cat photos.)

Posted by: mike shupp | January 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM

Don'tcha think the carp in Boston were also once aquarium fish?

Posted by: Dave Tufte | January 25, 2013 at 11:40 AM

I don't recall there being an aquarium nearby -- I'm talking about a stretch of the Charles River running roughly from Harvard University down through Boston Common. I always figured people with excess goldfish dumped them in the river cause they were too kindhearted to flush down the john or feed them to cats. Given more room to move around in than the average goldfish bowl, the little critters would grow rapidly. The Charles current wasn;t especially fast, as I recall, so semi-stagnant pools along the banks weren't uncommon. But it's been 50 years, so I don't guarantee my observations still hold up.

Posted by: mike shupp | January 28, 2013 at 05:41 PM

Sorry ... I meant home aquarium fish ... not from a tourist attraction.

Posted by: Dave Tufte | January 28, 2013 at 06:08 PM

Okay, ws're thinking along the same lines.

There actually IS a Boston Aquarium, it turns out -- or a New England Aquarium located in Boston -- about 5 or 6 miles away from this setting, in the city's waterfront district. But the attractions which delight school kids are turtles and sharks and penguins, rather than goldfish. How dull!

I actually recall seeing some koi in the ritzier parts of Cambridge, back before that term became of my vocabulary. But I don't think koi owners dumped unwanted offspring where the hoi polloi could get at them.

Next question: would you care to EAT a 3 lb goldfish? And my own answer is No -- we're talking about carp, after all.

Posted by: mike shupp | January 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM

I don't think that aquarium is that old anyway.

I would eat a carp if I knew where it was caught (and have done so). Definitely not one from the Charles (then or now).

Posted by: Dave Tufte | January 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM

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