Those blues dudes sure are particular about making sure their meat is properly handled. Catfish Keith is an old favourite of mine.

know this was humor but if he was serious about security, could have used a catfish bait container (counterfeit packaging) to camouflage the goods. maybe even dip into the pseudo pint in front of her. might be funny.

like putting the alpo label on a can of refried beans. always get an 'ewww!' when i test it to see if it's still good.

You got catfished.

Yeah I really wanted to see a pigeon eating a catfish lol. I remember seeing this on one of the nature tv shows quite some time back so I knew I was in for disappointment....

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Not to be a downer but they are kind of torturing the thing. I'm sure it's hanging out on the side of the boat because it has a hook through it, and drinking because it's trying not to die. These are the opposite of good times for catfish.

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Another catfish drinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rHj6lQ3h4

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Although I don't know the specifics here, and I understand that ignorance of the law is not a valid defense, it seems flat out insane to criminally prosecute the guy.

I give him the benefit of the doubt that they are telling the truth and this at least started by bailing rainwater out of a boat. That's a very normal activity, no reason to presume that any harm could come of it.

Then, first bucket gets tossed in and he sees that big splash. It's Florida, so there could be lots of potential explanations. It might be bigass catfish. It might be alligators. Could even be dolphins, depending on where they are in Florida. ...And, it might be manatees, although that probably wouldn't be the first thing I would think of.

So, big splash. I'd be surprised. My first reaction would be: "I wonder if it will happen again after another bucket." NOT "Oh dear, perhaps I am frightening some poor defenseless little creatures and should immediately cease what I'm doing." If I came the the conclusion that it was gators (which seems more likely/reasonable than manatees to me, although I don't live there), it would even stand to reason that frightening them off would be a good thing to do -- encourage them to move away from populated areas.

Given all that, it seems very unlikely to me that the dude had any malicious intent. If he knew they were manatees and knew that stressing them out like that could negatively impact their health, perhaps punishment would be in order. But if he thought they were anything else (fish / gators / whatever), or just plain didn't know, continuing to bail the boat in an attempt to get whatever they might be to swim away seems like a very reasonable thing to do.

Educating people that "hey, if you see something like this happening, it might be manatees and you should try to avoid stressing them out" seems like by far a better and more rational option than "throw the animal torturer in the slammer!"

I had a large bichir and oscar in a tank together. Lived for about 6 months fine -- I'd read that bichirs may try to eat anything that can fit in their mouth, but the oscar was roughly the same size differential to the bichir as these two fish were to each other, so I thought it'd be fine.

Came back from work one day and found the oscar in the bichir's mouth, with about the back half still free. Both dead -- I assume the bichir died from internal damage from getting distended roughly like in the video. So, I'd wager that catfish may very well have met the same fate.

And Catfish, and hillbilly handfishing.

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