Image: Louis Cahill
Louis Cahill, over at Gink & Gas, simply wrote an interesting story about steelhead death. Now, his story is anecdotal (the info he shares was shared to him by a pal) however it passes the odor test.
It goes like this– is it possible to eliminate a steelhead without understanding you were the one who dealt the fish its last blow?
To comprehend how that’s possible, you require to hear the story Louis’s pal informed him
Some researchers wished to tag steelhead to track their motions, so they set out with fishing pole to capture a couple of, place the tags, and let them totally free. Nevertheless, once they searched for the tag information, they saw something disconcerting.
” Within 2 hours much of the fish they had actually tagged, and launched in excellent health, were dead,” Cahill composed. “They gathered the fish and carried out autopsies to identify what had actually failed. In every case the cause of death was head injury. It ends up that ‘steelhead’ is a misnomer. The fish’s head is, in truth, its most susceptible area.”
Head injury, as Louis mentions later in the story, is possible if the steelhead is landed in shallow water, where it has the possibility to surge around and knock its head on rocks. Without the depth and rush of water to include the motions, even if the steelhead remains in an internet, it can still knock its head on rocks and possibly trigger mental retardation.
There’s a bit more to it than I have actually explained here, so it deserves checking out all of Louis’s story, which you can do here.
