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>talking to tackle shop owner
>he tells me about a guy who caught a small Murray cod and took it home for the fish tank
>highly illegal because cod are endangered here and are strictly catch and release in some states
>puts cod in tank with fresh non chlorinated water
>after a week there's a white patch where his hand held up the fish for a photo/removing hook
>after another week the patch turns red
>one week after that it's dead
>all those cod I handled carefully and released are probably dead now
Do you think it could have been the water in his tank? or could it be that some fish are basically screwed once you remove some of their slime simply by holding them?
