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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota conservation officials are blaming the illegal introduction of nonnative ornamental goldfish for large numbers of dead carp washing on a lakeshore south of the Minneapolis area.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says a virus from Minnesota lakes in the past year
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on Lake Byllesby near Cannon Falls. Both the DNR and Minneapolis Aquatic Invasive Research Center labs showed the fish died from infection with the koi herpes virus, which only afflicted common carp and koi.
Hundreds of dead fish line at Lake Nokomis. (Photo: KARE 11)
Koi has been raised in East Asia for centuries and kept by some people in aquariums and outdoor ponds. The virus can not be transmitted to humans
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