CNN: “Parks and recreation workers in South Carolina made an extraordinary discovery during a routine water quality test at a small lake. The crew caught a 9-pound goldfish that was about 15 inches long in the murky waters of Oak Grove Lake, said Ty Houck, director of Greenways, Natural and Historic Resources for the Greenville County Recreation District. That’s a whopper of a goldfish. National Geographic says the average weight for a pet goldfish is .2 to .6 pounds, though they can top 5 pounds in the wild. The average length is 4.7 to 16.1 inches. Houck said he has no clue how long the fish, which is not native to South Carolina, has been in the lake in the upper part of the state. He told CNN the team didn’t see anything resembling a goldfish when they last studied the lake a decade ago. ‘We think someone must have just dropped their fish in the lake because they didn’t want it anymore, instead of flushing it down the toilet,’ Houck said.”