Naïve Fish: Easy Targets for Spear Fishers

[HarleyK]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121113122531.htm



Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don't seem to know enough to
avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve.

The latest research by an Australian team working in the Philippines into the effects of marine reserves
has found there is an unexpected windfall awaiting fishers who obey the rules and respect reserve
boundaries -- in the form of big, innocent fish wandering out of the reserve.

 

[Miguel]

I love spear fishing and find it an honnest contest between Man and fish.

But this "bounty" is a pity. It is the same as with african game reserve animals that wonder outside its boundaries. Tragic.