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Originally Posted by saxmatt
That’s a goldfish/common carp hybrid. Wild goldfish “brown goldfish” and carp are all over the place in NJ and I’ve caught many hybrids up to 13lbs.
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You are correct. A USGS ichthyologist agrees with you. Thanks for this...it's an interesting fish, and I really think it's a Goldfish X Common Carp hybrid: the head profile is more in line with Carp although it seems to be lacking barbels, and the photo angle precludes me from getting an accurate scale count but it seems to be between the ranges for carp (35 - 39) and goldfish (28 - 30). Anyway, that's what I've entered it as, and it can be found at
https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/Spec...imenID=1695871.
Best,
-Matt
