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Natural selection; bass tournaments; dumb fish?
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<blockquote data-quote="richg99" data-source="post: 394839" data-attributes="member: 4376"><p>This ought to get some crazy theories out in the open, including mine.</p><p></p><p>We all know about "survival of the fittest" which, it is said, produces "Natural selection". The weak, dumb, slow animals get killed off. The stronger, faster and better equipped-for-survival animals stay around until they get old and weak.</p><p></p><p>Enter bass tournaments ( or any tournament where the prizes are returned to the water). The fish that you catch, I would assume, were not the smartest fish in the lake. The smarter fish might have been caught once or twice, but they are NOT as easy to catch the next time.</p><p></p><p>Soooooo...if we continually put the dumb fish back, and they reproduce...aren't we filling the gene pool with dumb, and dumber, fish? </p><p></p><p>That is OK for catching, but, over the years...are we just perpetuating the weak; dumb; and not-as-fast..... population?</p><p></p><p>Wonder what would happen if the "caught" fish were NOT returned to the water? Would we have a strain of bigger; faster; smarter; and harder to catch fish over the next few years?</p><p></p><p>Just wondering......</p><p></p><p>Can't go fishing, so I thought I'd mess with your brains for a while.</p><p></p><p>regards, richg99</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="richg99, post: 394839, member: 4376"] This ought to get some crazy theories out in the open, including mine. We all know about "survival of the fittest" which, it is said, produces "Natural selection". The weak, dumb, slow animals get killed off. The stronger, faster and better equipped-for-survival animals stay around until they get old and weak. Enter bass tournaments ( or any tournament where the prizes are returned to the water). The fish that you catch, I would assume, were not the smartest fish in the lake. The smarter fish might have been caught once or twice, but they are NOT as easy to catch the next time. Soooooo...if we continually put the dumb fish back, and they reproduce...aren't we filling the gene pool with dumb, and dumber, fish? That is OK for catching, but, over the years...are we just perpetuating the weak; dumb; and not-as-fast..... population? Wonder what would happen if the "caught" fish were NOT returned to the water? Would we have a strain of bigger; faster; smarter; and harder to catch fish over the next few years? Just wondering...... Can't go fishing, so I thought I'd mess with your brains for a while. regards, richg99 [/QUOTE]
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