Martinus catches the goldfish, we try to get rid of ourselves

Martinus catches goldfish, we try to keep them out

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There is no nearby lake in Aalborg without a goldfish, says local nature guide, who is concerned about the impact on the water environment.

Martinus Sørensen is good with a fishing rod and has caught many of the unwanted goldfish at the tavern. (Photo: © Christine Nørgaard) 56 min. ago

It may be that they look sweet swimming around in an aquarium or a garden pond - but goldfish should stay out of our lakes.

For it affects the water environment negatively when the fast-swimming goldfish are released into the wild, as it often happens in Aalborg Municipality.

Therefore, a number of schoolchildren are pulled into rubber boots and waterproof clothing today to help catch the many goldfish in the municipality's lakes.

- If you have a little technique, it's not hard. You can just put a worm on the hook, says Martinus Sørensen, who has caught up to 30 goldfish in the small lake near Langholt School.

His efforts are a great help, thinks Mikkel Rødvig, who is a nature guide in Aalborg Municipality.

- Goldfish are not native, and they breed very, very much. They eat our native salamanders and seeds, and they upset the balance in the lakes, explains he.

Here you can see Martinus Sørensen in full action by the lake in Langholt:

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Good for goldfish, bad for nature

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According to the nature guide, the goldfish in Aalborg's lakes are not native.

- There is typically talk of people who want to do something good for the goldfish by getting rid of it, and therefore choose to release it into the local lake.

- And that's a shame, says Mikkel Rødvig, who is happy for the individual goldfish:

- You do something good for the goldfish, but nature in the lake has it bad with it.

Goldfish are not a native species, according to Mikkel Rødvig, who also tries to catch them himself. (Photo: © Christine Nørgaard)

He is happy that many of the municipality's schoolchildren will help catch the goldfish, so that salamanders and other frogs can live a good life in our lakes - while goldfish can have it good in their respective aquariums.

And fortunately, there are people like Martinus Sørensen, who stands ready with a fishing rod in hand.

- It's really fun to catch them. They are smooth, and they jump around a lot.

It is in connection with DR Ramasjang's project 'Ramasjang Saves the Water Salamander', that schoolchildren in Aalborg Municipality catch goldfish.

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