Goldfish, released into the wild, are somehow surviving in saltwater

Get the Full StoryIn case you didn't know, goldfish aren't meant to survive in saltwater.

Yet that's what James Tweedley and researchers from the Centre of Fish and Fisheries at Murdoch University discovered in the Vasse and Wonnerup estuaries, located in south-western Australia.

They've been surveying the invasion of goldfish in these waterways, the results of which have been published in an article in the journal, International Aquatic Research. And well, it's not looking good.

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"If you have a goldfish at home, you'd just put it in a tank with tap water which has a salinity of zero," Tweedley explained. "By comparison the ocean has a salinity of about 35, and we found the goldfish in about 17 — which is halfway between the two, but a lot more than we'd expect." Read more...More about Australia, Science, Fish, Western Australia, and Goldfish

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