When a neighbour told Curt Beleutz of Sparta, Ont., last month that goldfish had taken over a natural wetland in a wooded area near his home, he grabbed a pool net and a bucket and started pulling them out.
“We basically just walked through the shallow water and scooped up as many as we could,” he said. “That day, I think we had around 80.”
Every time he went back, there seemed to be more, said Beleutz, 41. “Realistically, there’s thousands.”
Beleutz spends at lot of his free time now setting traps, collecting the small fish and releasing them into his backyard pond, which is not connected to any
