i found this amusing: hundreds of goldfish
 

found in the pond in sugarhouse park (very close to where i live). yeah, i realize it could be an ecological disaster, but imagine the look on the guy's/gal's face when they saw a bunch of these buggers swimming around. further, with their high visibility, i am amazed that the seagulls and kingfishers haven't eaten them all (the seagulls at that park are so numerous, i consider them vermin, and they eat all the ducklings and goslings).

in the article, they show one that is between two and three POUNDS! i had no idea they could that big. i am wondering if they are good to eat....

Hundreds of goldfish found in Parleys Creek | ksl.com

Goldfish are hardy. My wife's grandparents had a stock tank that was about 8 feet across and 4 feet deep. They put is a few goldfish in the 1930s. That same tank has goldfish in it. It would be interesting to know how many generations that is.

what is interesting is that this pond is VERY shallow, AND they nearly drain it every fall/winter, thus, i KNOW that the pond froze solid this last winter and does so every winter.

I had no idea that goldfish were such bad-arses... Not sure if they are good to eat. Apparently gulls don't like them.

They are from the carp family. Perfectly edible. But commonly not eaten by humans, if you discount the few that are swallowed by frat brothers.

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We used to have a park near here that they stocked with 1" goldfish in the spring. They would be 2 lbs. by fall. People would gather them up and save them over winter and return them to the pond in the spring. With cut backs no one filled the pond one year and the next year they filled it in. Such a loss as it was a nice place

Last winter our pond froze with about a foot of solid ice. We noticed one of the goldfish was on its side totally encased in the ice. About a week later the ice melted and the fish started swimming.
Incredible and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself.

wow. you gotta be kidding me.

I didn't pull it out of my arse to kid.

I used to go tubing and sledding at sugarhouse park when I was a kid on that huge hill. Thing was massive. Scary to go off from the top.

I bet if I saw it now it'd prolly only be 20 feet high.

Didn't they have a pioneer's log cabin in the corner of that park? maybe that was a different one .......

it is a pretty good hill.

if there was a cabin, it is there no more.

Now that I'm thinking of that cabin, the name "pioneer park" comes to mind.
Ring a bell?

pioneer park is downtown. i have spent very little time there; it is a dangerous place. it is completely overrun by homeless and drug pushers, along with undercover police. it doesn't hit the news, much, but there are frequent fights, stabbings, rapes, you name it, going on in that park. and it is flat as a pancake. there is a cool train engine there, however.