Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[troutbreath]

I think the fish used to taunt us less back then, before they dumped chemicals like Viagra in the water.




Some fish stories are just too wild to believe
 
Ottawa Citizen


Tuesday, February 26, 2008


OTTAWA -- Old-timers who insist that fish don't bite like they used to are right, says a new Canadian study that warns we're killing off the aggressive, fast-growing fish in lakes and oceans.

Aggressive fish chase food harder, grow faster and get caught more often. These, unfortunately, are the fish that would have the largest number of offspring if they lived.

That's likely one reason the northern cod isn't coming back faster, the University of Calgary study suggests.

The timid, slow-growing fish lose the race for food and would normally lose the evolutionary race. But in heavily fished waters they're the ones that survive and pass on their genes.

© The Vancouver Sun 2008