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As someone who worked at a park district, this is 100% true and such a big problem. Those fuckers grow to be like 18 inches long and have thousands of babies.
Someone dumped a couple they got at a fair into one of our ponds and within a few years they were nearly the only life left in the entire pond. They eat anything and everything in their path and decimate local ecosystems. They're the freahwater equivalent of locusts.
We ended up electrifying the entire pond, scooping them all up, and rebuilding the whole natural ecosystem back up from scratch. You can't do that with a lake tho
We have goldfish in a small decorative pond at our place. I was really surprised at quickly they breed. The first summer we got them we went trom 5 to over 20 in like two months.
I never have to worry about them outgrowing the pond since local predators seem to keep them in check.
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It sounds like gar like Asian carp, which would include goldfish. For some areas, maybe gar would work:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/asian_carp_being_eaten_by_native_fish_new_studies_find
It sounds like the limiting factor is mostly that once a carp gets big enough, some fish can't eat it, but some types of gar apparently get really big.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar
Well, that is interesting! I live on Lake Superior and we've got gar in the streams that come off the lake but I hadn't heard that they go for Asian Carp.