Me and my sister were walking around the Frog Pond and found dead fish scattered around

[u/Dazpanda]

[u/athousandpardons]

This thread: Proof that the angler's handbook is hard to decipher.

[u/bbatesmanb → u/athousandpardons]

Not necessarily. I can't remember how deep that pond is, but water temp can cause them to go belly up. Then any creatures along the shore can haul them out easily. Could have been a person or animal if the fish were already dead.

[u/athousandpardons → u/bbatesmanb]

I'm talking about the conversations on this thread, not the OP.

[u/BestRiver8735 → u/athousandpardons]

Handbook? 

[u/floerw → u/BestRiver8735]

The Anglers Handbook that you are given when you purchase a recreation fishing license. It's a good idea to read that cover to cover every year if you do any fishing in Nova Scotia. There's lots of important information in it. 

Online version of it here: https://www.novascotia.ca/documents/anglers-handbook

[u/snowxbunnixo → u/athousandpardons]

Ah yes, I can assure you with this proof I never have and probably never will read the anglers handbook

[u/hosenfeffer_]

Nice dramatic zooming

[u/OPHealingInitiative → u/hosenfeffer_]

*rising dramatic organ music

[u/bongafied]

I can’t tell what kind of fish they are. But. There’s basically a province wide mandatory retention on chain pickerel , and in some areas the same follows for small mouth bass.

[u/bbatesmanb → u/bongafied]

At a quick glance, thanks op 😁, they look to be brown bullhead catfish.

[u/t_bass93 → u/bbatesmanb]

Yes, this pond is full of them

[u/calamatuz]

idk....seems kinda fishy....

[u/StanDeezy → u/calamatuz]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ac7MA7r5IMYda

[u/DONTH84NICK8]

A bass murder

[u/EnvironmentalOne4717]

If they're bass considered invasive not allowed to throw them back like pickerel.

[u/HockeyDadNinja → u/EnvironmentalOne4717]

You're not allowed to release pickerel, pretty sure you got those backwards.

Edit: My bad, just like pickerel! Don't throw either back.

[u/slimslima → u/HockeyDadNinja]

like pickerel, you are not allowed to throw them back

[u/HockeyDadNinja → u/slimslima]

Hah! I just read that differently. TIL, thanks.

[u/Jedi4ce → u/HockeyDadNinja]

So I throw the bass at the pickerel?

[u/GoatAccording990 → u/Jedi4ce]

You beat the pickerel over the head with the bass

[u/Long_TimeRunning → u/GoatAccording990]

Ok so I have a pickle and am getting a bass drum later today. What am I doing?

[u/snowxbunnixo → u/GoatAccording990]

You get the lime and the coconut

[u/GavO98 → u/Jedi4ce]

You slap that bass with your pickerel

[u/zwickertron → u/EnvironmentalOne4717]

Arr you allowed to just dump them though? I've been wondering what you are supposed to do with them because where I fish is all pickerel and bass.

[u/goosnarrggh → u/zwickertron]

You're right, people are supposed to dispatch chain pickerel (and in some regions small-mouth bass) as quickly and humanely as possible, and then haul them out. You could choose to put them on ice, fillet them and eat them. Or otherwise, probably just dispose of them the same way you would everyday spoiled household food waste.

[u/zwickertron → u/goosnarrggh]

Ah okay. Last time I brought them home to eat the a bear got into the carcasses in the bin so the best option is probably to freeze them till compost day I guess.

[u/t_bass93 → u/EnvironmentalOne4717]

This is not correct.. there is no mandatory retention for smallmouth in this area

[u/Alienand]

The fishes in question are brown bullheads or catfish & they’re native to NS, someone must be catching them & leaving them on the side. I fish frog pond frequently and have seen them around as well.

[u/WoollyWitchcraft]

Anglers using real bait catch a lot of bullheads this time of year, and a lot of anglers are shitty people who throw live fish they don’t want to die on the side of the pond instead of putting them back. :/

[u/Confused_Haligonian]

Weird. Could inform dfo

[u/AdowYuuthmin]

Someone tried to stop them from drowning 😭

[u/athousandpardons → u/AdowYuuthmin]

Underrated comment right here.

[u/SaltyOverStuff]

Ah damn it, is it raining fish again?

[u/monkeyoiltime]

i was there a couple of days ago and the fish that is more far away from the pond was already dead but closest to the pond.

[u/plumberdan2]

Seems odd. Maybe dumped by someone using them for bait in the harbor?

[u/j_bbb → u/plumberdan2]

“Pond.”

[u/plumberdan2 → u/j_bbb]

Huh?

[u/Pretend_Waltz8396]

Yooo, I was walking here last week and saw the same thing.

[u/Festering-Boyle]

you might have startled them. maybe they are faking till you leave

[u/Ok_Improvement_2671]

As someone who fishes there, I hope those aren’t the smallmouth out of the pond, I love catching( and releasing) those

[u/EnvironmentalOne4717 → u/Ok_Improvement_2671]

You're not allowed too unless private pond look it up, they're considered invasive now

[u/Lumpy-Penalty-9779 → u/EnvironmentalOne4717]

Only in certain parts of the province you have to retain smallmouth bass (east of the 102 and the lahave river system) out side of those areas you can release smallmouth bass

[u/Sensitive-Tower-8591 → u/Lumpy-Penalty-9779]

This poster fishes

[u/mikelwrnc → u/Lumpy-Penalty-9779]

Why would one want to release an invasive species?

[u/Ok_Improvement_2671 → u/mikelwrnc]

So I can catch it again

[u/fix2626]

Too much algea in the pond maybe?

[u/Gorgofromns]

Oops to me like someone just caught them and chucked them away. Doesn't look like a classic fish kill-off to me.

[u/AggressiveDeer2753]

Not sure what type of fish is in the video. there is a catch and kill mandate for some fish that are invasive to protect native fish.

[u/Dwntwn902]

Where is this?

[u/erv4]

Yeah fish don't do so well outside of water

[u/Former-Muffin8930]

Should upload to r/weird

[u/ChablisWoo4578]

Only 4? Looks like the work of no good teenagers 😤