Well, it's worth 1.8 million dollars. It won grand champion at the All Japan Koi Show in 2017, and is the most expensive koi fish ever sold. Koi may just look like an oversized goldfish ...

"[They are] not only a pet, but also art," says Taro Kodama, president of Kodama Koi Farm. "They are called ... In the 1600s, Japanese carp farmers began noticing unusual color variations among ...

Since an outbreak of koi herpes virus in Japan in the 2000s, the country conducts a compulsory quarantine of 7-10 days for all exports, including to China, to make sure the koi are disease-free.

Koi diplomacy is back with Japanese nishikigoi, or ornamental carp, set to return to the lucrative Chinese market after a nearly year-long hiatus. Sources have confirmed that Chinese authorities ...