This is how you replenish fish stocks - with a fish bomb

In America, they're very concerned about fish stocks. So concerned, in fact, that they restock fish in the lakes.

This is how you replenish fish stocks - with a fish bomb

In America, they're very concerned about fish stocks. So concerned, in fact, that they restock fish in the lakes.

With an air-dropped fish bomb.

In a scene reminiscent of the whale in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the plane opens up its cargo and drops a whole pile of fish from the sky. We can't imagine it's a pleasant experience for the fish - or that all survive.

And you've been stocking your aquarium by carefully letting the fish acclimatise to the water, haven't you?

The video, from Utah, was uploaded in 2013, but was picked up by Reddit videos yesterday evening – resulting in a long discussion about how safe this is for the fish.

Unfortunately, the science discussion was not the greatest thing about that reddit thread. No, it was the observation that –

— the pilot dropped the bass.

Sorry.

Via Sploid on Gizmodo.

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