{"id":9192,"date":"2015-04-27T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:29:32","slug":"if-the-choice-is-sex-or-fishing-the-fish-will-get-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2015\/04\/27\/if-the-choice-is-sex-or-fishing-the-fish-will-get-screwed\/","title":{"rendered":"If the choice is sex or fishing, the fish will get screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ask your average angler whether<\/strong> he\u2019s contributing to the steady decline in fish numbers and you\u2019re liable to get a supersized serving of righteous indignation.<\/p>\n<p>Most fishermen agree that hooking and landing fish generate some\u00a0 mortality, but they\u2019re just as likely to rationalize the money they donate to conservation organizations, licensing, and taxes paid on outrageously expensive terminal tackle, more than make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise for the angler that eats fish. As fishermen are keenly aware \u2013 our sporting fraternity is among the few groups anxious to see fish propagate, and while we admit to our kill (although understandably quiet about what is freezer-burned and tossed), we\u2019re just as apt to quote similar avenues of compensatory dollars that lessen the impact of our hammy feet on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately those dollars are outweighed many times over by the angler\u2019s yearly outlay on Doritos, Ho-Ho’s, double-decker Bic Mac\u2019s (dripping with plasticine GMO Cheddar), greasy Chili Cheese fries, great slabs of charred red meat, and the butter necessary to slide of that mass down his gullet.<\/p>\n<p>While anglers protest with a pathetic bleat, \u201c\u2026 at least we get a little exercise,\u201d \u2013 the reality is that we\u2019re fat, and growing fatter by the minute.<\/p>\n<p>And as a by-product of all that questionable gastronomy, our collective diabetes medications are accelerating the feminization of male fish downstream of every sewage outflow.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0045653515002830\">Estrogens from birth control medications in wastewater treatment plant effluent have been cited as the likely cause, but research has shown that endocrine disruption is not solely predictable based on hormone receptor interactions. Many other non-hormone pharmaceuticals are found in effluent at concentrations orders of magnitude higher than estrogens, yet there is little data indicating the impacts of these other medications. The widely prescribed anti-diabetic metformin is among the most abundant of pharmaceuticals found in effluent and is structurally dissimilar from hormones. However, we show here that exposing fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to a concentration of metformin found in wastewater effluent causes the development of intersex gonads in males, reduced size of treated male fish, and reduction in fecundity for treated pairs<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fishmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"fishmore\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fishmore_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"fishmore\" width=\"554\" height=\"251\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that anglers are never prone to accept blame for more than a few milliseconds, and based on what the medical profession insists we do to correct our behavior, it appears as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the act of fishing is now a<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>life saving measure,<\/em><\/span> and should be advertised as such to any spouse insisting on lawns being mown or chores being done \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important we do our part to minimize the effects of our diabetes meds mixing with the existing slurry of birth control and female hormones in wastewater. While we can agree to sacrifice an occasional cheeseburger, we’ll waive any chastisement of female additions to wastewater, as we can all agree if the choice is between fishing and \u201ctail\u201d to save a watershed, the fish will definitely get screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask your average angler whether he\u2019s contributing to the steady decline in fish numbers and you\u2019re liable to get a supersized serving of righteous indignation. Most fishermen agree that hooking and landing fish generate some\u00a0 mortality, but they\u2019re just as likely to rationalize the money they donate to conservation organizations, licensing, and taxes paid on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,412,416,413,418,417,415,216,414],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angling","tag-birth-control-effluent","tag-cheeseburger","tag-diabetes-type-ii","tag-exercise","tag-fecundity","tag-fish-gonads","tag-fishing-humor","tag-metaformin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}