Catch-and-release fishing

[jasonhernandez74]

@insectobserver123

I do think your uncle is wrong if he says any species of fish has a post relese mortality rate of 0%, it may be 0.1%, but never absolutely 0

@song_dog

scientists “with credentials” view even a <10% mortality rate as too high.

As long as we are discussing catch-and-release mortality: there is a reason I won’t work with small mammals anymore. “Live” trapping also has a certain mortality rate, and seeing it was too discombobulating for me to want any part of it. Now, I know that one could argue that live trapping by researchers is not a recreational activity, and therefore does not occur on the scale of catch-and-release angling, but the point is that any time one is detaining and/or handling a wild creature, there is a risk that it will not survive the ordeal. From there on, it’s just a matter of what mortality rate is deemed “acceptable” by those who are not doing the dying.