Is there anything you can bring kayaking, swimming, or really anywhere people are fishing that will scare the fish away from the fishers? Ideally something not very obvious, and for kayaking something you can easily turn on near fishers and off when you’re not near them?
Yeah, it’s called the kayak lol
On a serious note, I don’t think there’s much you can really do to stop hobbyist fishers. The scale of factory farming dwarfs anything an individual does
Yeah, the fish are too trusting 😅 I was kayaking real close to them, they kept a couple feet of distance but definitely wouldn’t care given the distance I got from the fishers. But if there was some way to scare them from a distance with a sound or even a scent they like on my boat so they come toward my boat and away from the fishers, I feel like it could be good?
i agree the scale is completely different, to the point that looking at the numbers it doesn’t even make sense to focus on fishers and instead divert all that effort to industry, I think it mainly comes down to feeling powerless against industrial fishing / animal ag in general (vs the fishers are right there and it feels like a more even playing field), and a selfish/self centered annoyance that they’re making my time on the water worse by causing harm for fun which sucks to see and I feel disempowered from stopping them more directly.