Tennessee man catches, releases massive paddlefish https://www.interestingnews.club/2021/01/tennessee-man-catches-releases-massive.html Sent from my TECNO KC2 using Tapatalk
Good on him. There would have been a lot of people who would not have put that fish back in the water.
You could, were they not protected. They are a species that normally would migrate up the rivers to spawn, but with hydroelectric dams most paddlefish here and in China are now threatened.
Can't say that I'd heard of them before. I definitely wouldn't have kept it, personally. It's neat looking, but I look at fishing similarly to hunting. If I'm not going to eat it and it's not threatening anything of mine, I'm not killing it.
With freshwater fish in particular, usually you don't want to eat a really big fish that has been accumulating toxins for decades. Trophy fish aren't eating fish.
Well no, I'm just saying trophy fish are a little silly in my eyes anyway. It's cool to see an abnormally large fish, but it's just a novelty outside of anything we can learn from them.
I watched a documentary this weekend that told me commercial fishing is a bigger threat to the world/environment/human race than any of the standard things you'd think of in relation to climate change (cars and such).
Seaspiracy, I'd take that guy with a HUGE grain of salt. Everything he touched on was at least partially true, but his conclusions were clearly preconceived to his alleged journey of discovery. And the concept that the life of a shrimp or fish is equivalent to a life of a whale is counter to everything he said about the carbon cycle in the ocean.
Yeah, we finished it tonight, and I honestly couldn’t stand the dude by the end of it. How do you listen to a dude compare the life of a whale to the life of a chicken and not ask a single follow up question? Felt like a Biden press conference (if Biden press conferences were a thing).