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    Posted: 20 Apr 2016 at 8:41pm
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In at Paknsave Papakura the other day..yep..for sale at $8.99/kg.
Over grown goldfish..what next
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See them around here as well,along with catfish. Sell like hotcakes.
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If people want to eat them then that's great! it's cheap and might even reduce the pressure on salt water species. 
Would I eat it? Yeah...nah. 
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I've eaten them in Thailand..not for me..even smoked it still taste like cardboard. .plus the thought of what it feed on make me want to throw up lol..But the Thai love them ...
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It's all protein I guess, and let's face it, with the spicing that gets tossed into Asian cuisine, what does any meat actually taste of?
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Been on sale around Sth Auckland that I know of for at least 3 or 4 yrs now...
But no where near that price... at leat 1/2 that price.
Make good bait, but scale 1st, they have the biggest  thickest hardest scales around.
Also make good burly.
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That's quite odd. I know some Asians and eastern Europeans like eating carp, but I've never seen koi carp for sale to be eaten.

It might be more lucrative to sell live fish abroad as pets. Individuals can be worth $1000s in the right market.
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Koi carp are a pest fish and the danger with allowing them to be sold is that they could be seen as a valuable resource and so temp someone to transfer them to other areas. This would be highly illegal of course but very easy to do as koi can survive a long time out of water. If they ever became established in the Rotorua lakes they would cause havoc with the trout fishery there.
 
Originally posted by MightyBoosh MightyBoosh wrote:

It might be more lucrative to sell live fish abroad as pets. Individuals can be worth $1000s in the right market.
 
This would apply to special colour variations and patterns. For instance a pure white koi with a single red dot in the middle of its head, mimicking the Japanese flag, would be extremely valuable. The common koi found in NZ - not so much.
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There's more koi in the Waikato than the market can handle and the main market for them is in Auckland. There'd be no commercial benefit to establish populations further away from Auckland. If anyone, it'll be those weirdo coarse fishermen that'll do it.

On another note koi and catfish are reasonably popular, but wild goldfish are super popular, wholesaling for up to $25/kg. Apparently broth made from them makes new mothers produce more milk.
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Originally posted by mowerman mowerman wrote:

In at Paknsave Papakura the other day..yep..for sale at $8.99/kg.
Over grown goldfish..what next
Okay... something tells me I should catch and keep as many as I like to eat(for scientific purposes)...
I've seen people fishing near Harvey Norman for these fish, and not anyone hooked a single koi except for me; I'm all about finesse when it comes to fishing... 
Can I keep the catch at such places and bring it home to eat? It sounds illegal despite being classified as pest control, not to mention eels get my bait at nightfall...
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Maybe it tastes ok. I've caught/shot/killed a few - not many but they all ended up as bait.
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