A very good article. Something that I have said for a long time about specific fish such as Carp, Buffalo, Suckers, etc. Maybe someone can benefit from this article and change their ways.
http://blog.nature.org/science/2015/03/02/a-sucker-myth-is-born-every-minute/
Part of the article.....
"Sadly, this viewpoint still persists. Consider the comments on an Idaho fishing forum concerning what you should do if you catch a sucker:
Kill and through [sic] back.
If you catch them while trying to catch trout of coarse [sic] they are in direct competition with the trout. They eat the same thing. There is only so much food and if the suckers are eating it. Less food for the trout.
yeah a good slice to the belly or a few puncture wounds to pop there [sic] air bladder works great for a catch and release on those suckers and carp!!!!
I have a close friend who is a biologist He simply slices open the belly and returns them back to the water. His theory is they will be food for something. And wont [sic] be eating the fish we have come there to catch. Side note .Look at Big Springs in Island Park. Huge suckers in there now Makes me sick
A lot of fishermen only want to benefit themselves and not nature.
http://blog.nature.org/science/2015/03/02/a-sucker-myth-is-born-every-minute/
Part of the article.....
"Sadly, this viewpoint still persists. Consider the comments on an Idaho fishing forum concerning what you should do if you catch a sucker:
Kill and through [sic] back.
If you catch them while trying to catch trout of coarse [sic] they are in direct competition with the trout. They eat the same thing. There is only so much food and if the suckers are eating it. Less food for the trout.
yeah a good slice to the belly or a few puncture wounds to pop there [sic] air bladder works great for a catch and release on those suckers and carp!!!!
I have a close friend who is a biologist He simply slices open the belly and returns them back to the water. His theory is they will be food for something. And wont [sic] be eating the fish we have come there to catch. Side note .Look at Big Springs in Island Park. Huge suckers in there now Makes me sick
A lot of fishermen only want to benefit themselves and not nature.