07-15-2019, 02:37 PM
Education is needed for anglers, not more regulation which would be near impossible to enforce, there are multiple studies that show that the survival rate of deep hooked fish is significantly better for fish where the line is cut and the hook left in place. Here is an excerpt from one of those studies
"After 48h, 45.5% of the fish from the line-cut treatment group were able to expel the hook originally embedded in their esophagus, and at the end of the 10 day study, 71.4% had expelled the hook. Even with the hook left in the esophagus, fish were able to feed although at lower rates than controls during the first 48h of holding. By 10 days post-capture, there were no differences in feeding rates as evidenced by growth pattern" https://www3.carleton.ca/fecpl/pdfs/FR-F...al2009.pdf
The vast majority of fish survive if you simply cut the line another option that avoids deep hooking fish while bait fishing is the use of circle hooks, the fish sets the hook and it ends up in the corner of the mouth most of the time.
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"After 48h, 45.5% of the fish from the line-cut treatment group were able to expel the hook originally embedded in their esophagus, and at the end of the 10 day study, 71.4% had expelled the hook. Even with the hook left in the esophagus, fish were able to feed although at lower rates than controls during the first 48h of holding. By 10 days post-capture, there were no differences in feeding rates as evidenced by growth pattern" https://www3.carleton.ca/fecpl/pdfs/FR-F...al2009.pdf
The vast majority of fish survive if you simply cut the line another option that avoids deep hooking fish while bait fishing is the use of circle hooks, the fish sets the hook and it ends up in the corner of the mouth most of the time.
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