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8-year-old catches piranha in Pennsylvania An 8-year-old boy fishing with his dad at Ridley Park Lake near Philadelphia thought he had hooked a bass. When they finally got the fish in, he took one look and told his dad, “It’s a piranha!” The boy had recognized it from watching videos on YouTube. He wasn’t guessing. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists confirmed the roughly 9.5-inch, 2-pound fish was a piranha. The species isn’t native to Pennsylvania, and officials believe someone likely kept it as an exotic pet before illegally dumping it into the lake. The good news is officials don’t believe a piranha population is about to take over Pennsylvania. The fish likely wouldn’t survive the state’s cold winters. But this is another reminder of what can happen when people release unwanted exotic pets into the wild. What was someone’s aquarium pet ended up swimming in a public fishing lake.