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--Apple-Mail=_570D9D27-5406-4088-816A-BFEEC28F0EF7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] goldfish kill Port Williams skating pond > Date: May 1, 2015 at 1:59:42 AM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Fred Scott <fwscott@eastlink.ca>, John Gilhen = <GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca>, Mark Elderkin <elderkmf@gov.ns.ca> >=20 > I didn=92t know that goldfish were in the skating pond, but for a few = years there have been goldfish also in the pond next to Hennigar=92s = Farm Market in Greenwich. How they got there, I have not yet tried to = find out. Surely it must be illegal for anyone to add an exotic species = like goldfish to any natural or seminatural wetland? How to decide when = a pond is =91wild=92?? >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> From: "Hebda, Andrew J" <Andrew.Hebda@novascotia.ca> >> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] fish kill Port Williams skating pond >> Date: April 30, 2015 at 10:26:43 PM ADT >> To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>=20 >> Hi George=20 >>=20 >> If there was a lot of organic matter in the bottom of the pond, could = have caused a stripping of the oxygen as decomposition progressed. = Anyother species? >>=20 >> As well, any idea how long the goldfish have been in that pond... = they are not native, so would have had to have been a = release/introduction. >>=20 >> Andrew >>=20 >> A Hebda >> NSM Collections (Zoology) >> ________________________________________ >> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] = on behalf of George E. Forsyth [g4syth@nspes.ca] >> Sent: April-30-15 10:18 PM >> To: naturens >> Subject: [NatureNS] fish kill Port Williams skating pond >>=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> The other evening I was out for a walk and noticed hundreds of gold >> fish floating on the edge of the Port Williams, Kings Co, skating = pond >> on Belcher St. I don't know if this is a result of accidental or >> intentional poisoning, or were they killed by natural causes as a >> result of the longer than usual ice and snow cover? There was a good >> selection of small and large fish, I only noticed gold fish. It was >> quite impressive how many there were! >>=20 >>=20 >> George Forsyth >>=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_570D9D27-5406-4088-816A-BFEEC28F0EF7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] = goldfish kill Port Williams skating pond</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">May 1, 2015 at 1:59:42 AM = ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Fred Scott <<a = href=3D"mailto:fwscott@eastlink.ca">fwscott@eastlink.ca</a>>, John = Gilhen <<a = href=3D"mailto:GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca">GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca</a>>, Mark = Elderkin <<a = href=3D"mailto:elderkmf@gov.ns.ca">elderkmf@gov.ns.ca</a>><br></span></= div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I = didn=92t know that goldfish were in the skating pond, but for a few = years there have been goldfish also in the pond next to Hennigar=92s = Farm Market in Greenwich. How they got there, I have not yet tried = to find out. Surely it must be illegal for anyone to add an exotic = species like goldfish to any natural or seminatural wetland? How = to decide when a pond is =91wild=92??<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim = in Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: Helvetica;"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">"Hebda, Andrew J" = <<a = href=3D"mailto:Andrew.Hebda@novascotia.ca">Andrew.Hebda@novascotia.ca</a>&= gt;<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>RE: [NatureNS] fish kill Port = Williams skating pond</b><br></span></d