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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cruelty-fears-over-goldfish-trick.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Magician Fu Yandong directs goldfishes to swim in sync during a Lunar New Year's Eve television show (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-cruelty-fears-over-goldfish-trick.jpg" alt="Magician Fu Yandong directs goldfishes to swim in sync during a Lunar New Year's Eve television show (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Animal activists in China say a now-famous magic trick with synchronised goldfish swimming for the Lunar New Year may have involved abuse including implanted magnets and urged state TV not to show it again.</p>
<p>Hundreds of millions of people watched the trick during a China Central Television (CCTV) gala &#8211; China&#8217;s most watched broadcast of the year &#8211; on the January 30 eve of the Lunar New Year festival.</p>
<p>Goldfish are a symbol of wealth in China, but the image of six of them swimming in perfect sync under magician Fu Yandong&#8217;s direction alarmed some Chinese, who worried that magnets were implanted in the fish or that they were controlled by electric current.</p>
<p>Fifty-three animal rights groups and other groups have sent a letter to CCTV asking not to let Fu perform the trick again during the broadcast of the Lantern Festival, which ends the Lunar New Year events.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should stand for non-violence, harmony and tolerance, but to my great surprise CCTV, the state broadcaster, tells the public we can use animals for entertainment. I think this is just wrong,&#8221; said Qing Shaona, director of the Capital Animal Welfare Association.</p>
<p>Mr Fu would not reveal how the trick worked, but defended his actions, saying on his Twitter-like microblog that the goldfish were &#8220;living happily&#8221;.</p>
<p>Like many Chinese, the animal rights groups want to know how the trick is done and have asked for a group of independent experts to examine the fish. The letter warns against the &#8220;potential torture or injury to animals resulting from audience members trying to imitate performances&#8221;.</p>
<p>China has been working on a draft animal protection law, but it is unclear when it will be passed.</p>
<p>It was also not clear whether the magic trick was to be performed again, as the animal advocates feared.</p>
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