About 50 koi fish are missing from San Jose's Japanese Friendship Garden, the city's department of parks, recreation and neighborhood services said Wednesday. Department officials in an Instagram ...

Stephanie Magallon reports. About 50 koi fish are missing from San Jose's Japanese Friendship Garden, the city's department of parks, recreation and neighborhood services said Wednesday.

Fishy business: The Japanese city that reels in tourists thanks to beautiful koi carp swimming in the DRAINS Koi carp were introduced into the town of Shimabara, near Nagasaki, in 1978 The fish ...

We will provide updates as we receive them," the parks department posted on Twitter. We regret to inform our community that approximately 50 koi fish are missing from the Japanese Friendship Garden.

But it is the curvature of the fish that accounts for 60 percent of the final score, explained competition organiser Isamu Hattori, who runs Japan´s main association for breeders of koi carp.

The fish were located in the Japanese Friendship Garden All the koi at the Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose, photographed Jan. 18, 2023, have been relocated to a single pond since the 2017 ...

“For each 2,000sq.m pond, I only stock about 2,000 koi. I keep the fish in sparse density so that they can grow fast and have beautiful shapes and colours,” Duy said. The more significant the farmed ...

The koi are shipped overnight by UPS in special bags of oxygen-infused water inside custom insulated containers. “We have fish ranging in price from $15 to $1,500,” Ellen points out.

50 Koi Fish Stolen From San Jose's Japanese Friendship Garden By NBC Bay Area staff and Stephanie Magallon • Published May 3, 2023 • Updated on May 4, 2023 at 6:17 am ...

It's either there in the genes at birth, or it's not," mused Mikinori Kurikara, a koi breeder in Saitama, north of Tokyo, who says he can spot it in fish when they reach eight or nine months old.

But it is the curvature of the fish that accounts for 60 percent of the final score, explained competition organizer Isamu Hattori, who runs Japan's main association for breeders of koi carp.