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Humans have been herding and handling sheep  with Scrapie for at least a few hundred years, I don't think I ever heard of a shepherd with CJD. 

Probably so.  I always sterilize my honey with Whisky.

I heard it was from honey! 

I saw one the other day about some mass die offs of anyone eating Wild Trout.  Can't seem to find it now.....

This one has taken off...  420,000 views and counting.  Crazy.  I think Wesley's short is so much better.
 

The headline was that only 2% of MO Anglers could catch the all in a year. Sounds like my kind of challenge but living in Maryland doesn't help me. So I thought I would drop the gauntlet for those intrepid multispecies anglers to take up the challenge 😁. (sorry I had to take a photo of my screen since the MDC file was over 22 MB in size).
Good luck to those that may give this a try in 2024.
FYI I have only caught 2 from this list so far in Maryland.

😂 

That hurts😆

Not sure when I will be in that area again but would love to fish those trout with you.

Mr John if you are ever in sw mo give me. Buzz. I'll take you to the magical world of creek x

Those are some pretty healthy fish! Must have been a fun trip.

I told you.  In person only.  😀

Flies

No cough up what those browns were munching lol

I can't whole heartedly agree with this. If that many fish were killed the banks would b lined with dead fish from start to finish. I do agree people kill some fish but 15 percent is out of line with reality . 5 percent is a stretch. We stock most of the fish pursued in recreational ways anymore anyway so I don't think there is a real harm. We raise cattle and we are very kind to them from the moment of birth. We still eat them but no need to shock or beat an animal. People are too disconnected from where our food comes from . You've got politicians saying we don't need farms just go to grocery store 😂 this is real 

PSA/FYI:
MDC-run hatcheries produce (in addition to trout) paddlefish, hybrid striped bass, striped bass, muskellunge, largemouth bass, bluegills, hybrid sunfish, grass carp, walleye, pallid sturgeon, and catfish.  Maybe other fish too, but these were listed on the various MDC warmwater hatchery websites.

I can't whole heartedly agree with this. If that many fish were killed the banks would b lined with dead fish from start to finish. I do agree people kill some fish but 15 percent is out of line with reality . 5 percent is a stretch. We stock most of the fish pursued in recreational ways anymore anyway so I don't think there is a real harm. We raise cattle and we are very kind to them from the moment of birth. We still eat them but no need to shock or beat an animal. People are too disconnected from where our food comes from . You've got politicians saying we don't need farms just go to grocery store 😂 this is real 

Which fish do you refer to? Large mouth are protected by length limits and bag limits and are among the most abundant fish isohr great state. They are not stocked but reproduce very quickly and are managed fir recreational purposes. I see the point al was making but think perhaps it's a possibility that the revenue created as well as the life long memories are worth the concerns

So, if you had a contained system like a very large aquarium and did actually catch and release for instance a hundred fish all apparently unharmed, except for some mark for future identification; then observed them over a several days and 15 of those fish died hours or days after release while all the uncaught fish did not die, you would attribute those dead fish to coincidence? This is how those studies work, they start with a known number and end with a known number and are compared to a control group of a similar size. Not perfect information gathering but not just WAG either.
I've read about dozen such studies over the past 50 years and some were done better than others, but the ones with better controls and more stringent protocols were often the ones that showed higher mortality. Of course studies done by competent fish handlers in controlled conditions can only lead to an estimate of what actually happens with clumsy or uncaring handling. My feeling is that if fish biologists and hatchery workers find 10% delayed mortality then the actual recreational mortality might be as high as 30% simply because so many people don't release enough fish to ever become skilled at it or simply have to keep the fish out of water and drop it in the dirt 3-4 times to get that image of it.
Those fish that die from handling rarely float and usually get consumed by crawdads or turtles so that keeps them out of sight and out of mind.
If most of the fish you pursue are stocked you must be fishing only the Trout Parks. Trout is the only stocked species of  fish that I have caught in my life time. And not even all of those were stocked, some were naturalized wild things.
Even given a 5% mortality of C&R, when 50 anglers per day float the same stretch of stream and each catch and release 10 bass and they do this 2-3 days per week for 3-4 months per year; we are looking at possibly 3-5000 dead bass per summer on that stretch of creek. It's likely though that many of those fish were caught and released multiple times per day and thus the percentage of mortality increased but fewer fish harmed. And of course many kayakers will only catch 1-2 fish on a given day but then there are guys right behind them that are catching 50-100. And of course some of those fish would have died of natural causes anyway, the heron stalks.
 
 

Not true at all. The most pursued fish in Missouri have no stocking program. 

I can't whole heartedly agree with this. If that many fish were killed the banks would b lined with dead fish from start to finish. I do agree people kill some fish but 15 percent is out of line with reality . 5 percent is a stretch. We stock most of the fish pursued in recreational ways anymore anyway so I don't think there is a real harm. We raise cattle and we are very kind to them from the moment of birth. We still eat them but no need to shock or beat an animal. People are too disconnected from where our food comes from . You've got politicians saying we don't need farms just go to grocery store 😂 this is real