For example, there are koi with light blue spots, ones with large red patches on their backs, or all-metallic gold. But the most winning fish often just boil down to these three varieties.

“Running bet is that it either came in a fisherman’s bait bucket, or someone just had a big fish they didn’t want to keep around,” biologist John Rayfield said. The 14-pound koi fish was ...

It was funded through Illuminate, a donor-funded effort to revitalize San Francisco using large-scale art. It took Novy and his team three days to paint the whale-sized koi fish in Fulton Plaza.

Members of Oklahoma City’s Fishery Team were out on the water on Monday and spotted a 14-pound koi in a pond. “Running bet is that it either came in a fisherman’s bait bucket, or someone just had a ...