is barotrauma keeping you up?

[agentaqua]

<iframe width="640" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EiZFghwVOyI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Milton Love with a rap song by Ray Troll

 

[agentaqua]

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Fantastic video showing how rockfish that appear dead at the surface due to barotrauma fully can revive at depth! From the Coastside Fishing Club.

 

[agentaqua]

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Video showing how well a “fish descender” works to save rockfish that have suffered barotrauma.

 

[Hali killer]

Ive seen these before. Is an awesome bit of info.

 

[agentaqua]

Ive seen these before. Is an awesome bit of info.

I really think we should make this a "have to" especially for gravid (egg-bearing) females in the spring. We do this for female crabs. What do you think? Good idea?

 

[donovan]

Crabs suffer from barotrauma? I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday.

 

[agentaqua]

Crabs suffer from barotrauma? I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday.

I'm assuming that is what they call sarcasm, donovan. If so - yep - haha

Just to be clear - my reference was to releasing egg-bearing female crabs for all the obvious reasons -but not because they get barotrauma.

Don't you think it would be a good idea to release larvae-containing female rockfish (using the methods described in this thread about getting them to the bottom after their swim bladders have been expanded) - for the same reasons?