A: Unlike shellfish, scaled finfish have a swim bladder for buoyancy control - a chamber full of gas roughly in the middle of their body. There are also small areas of gas up behind the eyes and in other places.
The amount of gas contained in these areas is determined by depth and increased/decreased osmotically from the circulatory system like gases passing through your lungs into/out of the blood stream. When the fish is brought up from depth the water pressure decreases causing the gas to expand, much faster than it can be metabolized. The expanding gasses crush internal organs, blow them out through the anus and do other damage.
I gotta tell you, it's amazing the responses you get putting up a video like this. Those looking for a laugh with their responses are the most irrelevant. The ones calling us "heartless" for blowing up the fish in this video are too intellectually challenged to get the point. make the point here.
At the the time we shot this video THOUSANDS of traps like these were being pulled every week killing hundreds of thousands of fish. I repeat that the trappers were lying their asses off to the regulators by denying that this carnage happened at all. The ONLY way to prove that they were lying and to demonstrate the reality was to SACRIFICE this small sampling of fish and species. Our video helped lead to banning traps in the Gulf of Mexico thus saving MILLIONS of individual fishes.
Nice music, cook them up and use the angel fish for bait to catch something worth eating. You could have saved those guys if you would have popped the air bladder and dropped them back so they could go back to the bottom. The crabs are too small so you want to let them go. Happy fishing and if you want to see more fish get bugeyed go on a Deep Sea fishing trip. They are a blast.
they should deff be banned forever... and those idiots want to use them in the gulf....we dont even know the extent of the damage from the oil spill(gushing mess from hell) we will be lucky if there are any fish left.....its sad to say it..and i love to eat fish...but we might have to give the gulf a few years to recover... those fisherman might have to find new work.............but that is just my oppinion
Yesterday, February 3, 2010 the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council told the potential fish trappers to go to Hell and said they will NOT even discuss the possibility of allowing fish traps back in the Gulf of Mexico. Reality wins out over trapper propaganda. Trappers: Get it through your heads that fish traps are a bad gear type that should be given the same consideration as dynamite fishing. Do us all a favor and don't bring it up again.
Very often the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has been more inclined to kiss commercial fishing interest asses than employ common sense. Let's hope that this trend ends and the would be trappers are told to go to hell.
A: Unlike shellfish, scaled finfish have a swim bladder for buoyancy control - a chamber full of gas roughly in the middle of their body. There are also small areas of gas up behind the eyes and in other places.
182436hike 3 months ago
The amount of gas contained in these areas is determined by depth and increased/decreased osmotically from the circulatory system like gases passing through your lungs into/out of the blood stream. When the fish is brought up from depth the water pressure decreases causing the gas to expand, much faster than it can be metabolized. The expanding gasses crush internal organs, blow them out through the anus and do other damage.
182436hike 3 months ago
I fail to understand why the fishes died but the shellfishes lived.
mtv565 3 months ago
I think it should remain banned cause how would u like it ifi blow ur arm off well that's what the fish feel bann it for life
lolnoob211 3 months ago
I gotta tell you, it's amazing the responses you get putting up a video like this. Those looking for a laugh with their responses are the most irrelevant. The ones calling us "heartless" for blowing up the fish in this video are too intellectually challenged to get the point. make the point here.
182436hike 3 months ago
At the the time we shot this video THOUSANDS of traps like these were being pulled every week killing hundreds of thousands of fish. I repeat that the trappers were lying their asses off to the regulators by denying that this carnage happened at all. The ONLY way to prove that they were lying and to demonstrate the reality was to SACRIFICE this small sampling of fish and species. Our video helped lead to banning traps in the Gulf of Mexico thus saving MILLIONS of individual fishes.
182436hike 3 months ago
I was hoping to see them explode
BabysFace 4 months ago
bann fish traps but still collect aquarium marine fish for our aquarium view
guninhatersdown 1 year ago
Nice music, cook them up and use the angel fish for bait to catch something worth eating. You could have saved those guys if you would have popped the air bladder and dropped them back so they could go back to the bottom. The crabs are too small so you want to let them go. Happy fishing and if you want to see more fish get bugeyed go on a Deep Sea fishing trip. They are a blast.
ohu8one2008 1 year ago
killing the fish just to make your piont makes you the same as the guuys who ues the traps........heartless how could you!
just1zoo 1 year ago
they should deff be banned forever... and those idiots want to use them in the gulf....we dont even know the extent of the damage from the oil spill(gushing mess from hell) we will be lucky if there are any fish left.....its sad to say it..and i love to eat fish...but we might have to give the gulf a few years to recover... those fisherman might have to find new work.............but that is just my oppinion
hardhatg69 1 year ago
Why didn't you just break the clips and let the fish go? I did not need your demonstration to understand the principle of decompression.
robr8177 1 year ago
Yesterday, February 3, 2010 the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council told the potential fish trappers to go to Hell and said they will NOT even discuss the possibility of allowing fish traps back in the Gulf of Mexico. Reality wins out over trapper propaganda. Trappers: Get it through your heads that fish traps are a bad gear type that should be given the same consideration as dynamite fishing. Do us all a favor and don't bring it up again.
182436hike 2 years ago
Very often the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has been more inclined to kiss commercial fishing interest asses than employ common sense. Let's hope that this trend ends and the would be trappers are told to go to hell.
182436hike 2 years ago
Why is there even a discussion about this? Where has common sense gone?
billandwende 2 years ago
Fish traps need to be banned!
DamselDiver 2 years ago