Greg Burr is a regional fisheries biologist for the DIF&W. He and a small crew were at Birdsacre Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary in Ellsworth on Tuesday. There, a small pond is overrun with goldfish, he said, some of them up to a foot long.
It’s unclear how the fish got there, Burr said, but he knows they were placed by human hands. Despite the common name “goldfish,” the Carassius auratus auratus is not always the familiar golden color. They’re often brown or even black, Burr said, and are mistakenly identified as carp or sunfish. |
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