Apparently goldfish can get pretty big and taste like what they eat

@MethDozer i wonder if it would be economical to raise them for food.

@SW-User Sure. They're just carp. People farm carp all over the world.

@MethDozer well, now I wonder what advantages would there be to farming goldfish over other, naturally better tasting, carp 🤔

@SW-User Most likely little to none. The only two pros to it I could think of off the top of my head is easier acquisition. You can buy goldfish just about anywhere be it a pet store or a landscape company selling pond fish. Also possibly permitting because with goldfish, you could just say you're stocking a pond where carp is has kina gotten a bad name and a lot of areas are banning or severely hesitent to issue permits ton farm them because they so often get introduced to native waterways and wreak havok. Goldfish do to, but they don't get accidentally released as often or easily just by virtue of what they are used for and where. So don't have the legal stigma.

@SW-User I have met people who have large ponds they had or were stocked with perch they fish out of for eating. Though there is a method to keeping a food viable population present in them because if you over fish the larger ones and/or don't have a predator balance you end up with a pond full of tiny fingerlings that are too small to reall eat and unless you cull the hell out of them the population stays size stunted.

@MethDozer well, that's enough to justify a pilot run, at least. Maybe raise one and see how much a diet to make it tasty would cost.

Then see how complex maintaining a food-worthy population would be.

@SW-User my mum kept goldfish in a pond for years . They were about the size of her hand.
The trick is to have heaps of plants in the water .
Goldfish are what they call 'dirty fish', (not that they're dirty, but they make the water dirty. So you need plants to use their crap as fertiliser to keep the water clean.

@OogieBoogie I'll keep that in mind. Thank you!