Livewell Myth

[Glenn]

"Please Release Me" and "Catch & Release Formula" products from Sure-Life Laboratories will NOT kill fish if used with an oxygenator. If anyone says otherwise, it's a myth!  It's completely false.

 

Sure-Life products have ALWAYS worked with oxygenators. 

 

And here's the proof:

 

 

Stop spreading the myth and start telling the truth!

 

[PABASS]

Recently watched the bilge podcast with the BASS director of conservation and he had several great points about fish health, two of those really stuck with me.  ~One, he cant support any products for fish care because they are not FDA approved.  In fact one of the best that is no longer on the market caused cancer, something to think about when we release these fish back into the wild, they have the potential to be consumed by another human. 

~Two, and I think is the best information for any tournament angler is keeping the live well water roughly 8-10 degrees cooler then the lake dramatically increases the chances of long term fish survival.

 

[Glenn]

There is no requirement that states the FDA must approve animal products.  I guess the BASS director doesn't know that.

 

That said, Surelife products ARE FDA approved and EPA certified, and have been around for nearly 4 decades.

[gim]

12 minutes ago, Glenn said:

There is no requirement that states the FDA must approve animal products.

 

Depends on what the intended purpose is.  For livestock and companion animals, if its a medication or a medicated feed, then it needs approval.  Just like a human drug, medical device, etc.  The approval process is long and arduous.

 

Obviously bass are not pets or livestock so this generally does not apply here.

[Team9nine]

Straight from a Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. paper on livewell mortality that mentioned this issue (early 2000s). You rarely hear this concern raised these days, but if that was Gene G. on the podcast, that would explain him mentioning the subject.
 

[PABASS]

1 hour ago, Glenn said:

There is no requirement that states the FDA must approve animal products.  I guess the BASS director doesn't know that.

 

That said, Surelife products ARE FDA approved and EPA certified, and have been around for nearly 4 decades.

That was his point on why he wont recommend any live well products for fish because there hasn't been any studies on the effects of humans consuming said released fish, a thought that never occurred to me, not that I use any live well products but still interesting. 

[Choporoz]

Interesting discussion about chemicals introduced into our food chain.  I only ever considered fish health.  Maybe best to just have no tournament fish in livewells if surface temps over 79 at time of first launch

[gim]

Companies like 3M and DuPont have been dumping known carcinogens such as various PFAS into the environment for years.  Its in our water and its in our fish now, and it won't be going away anytime soon either.

 

They were required to pay out whopping amounts recently to clean it up, but the damage is already done.  These chemicals will be around for a long, long time.  They are also known as "forever chemicals."