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Dead koi carp

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Dead koi carp

Department of Conservation worker Tom Rouse stands with a collection of dead koi carp in Palmerston North. A local landowner found the fish in an ornamental pond on her Awahuri farm. The pond was drained, exposing 216 koi, some up to 45 centimetres long.

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Bob McDowall, Coarse fish – Introductions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15676/dead-koi-carp (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bob McDowall, published 1 March 2009.