Actually I'm glad to hear the reason for the dead fish. Just a "necessary study". Fair enough. Now we can end the speculation and start griping about lazy tax payed civil servants that dumped the fish on the shore because it was simply easier than finishing their job properly :-) :-(.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Can't believe TP&W knows of this and even more approves of it.

So....killing hundreds (if not thousands)of random fish is ok? Just to check organs for chemicals? Is there not a better way?

I think it's called collateral damage steez, a small consequence for the benefit of all. My issue is the way the proceeds were handled and they should publish the results of their survey if they are going to perform a test on public water. Curious what part if any the SRA had in this.

It's not a TOOOOMA!

Now it has been awhile back...but I worked on a study at coal fired power plant cooling lakes back in the eighties. Betcha I could still navigate Martin Creek on a moonless night without hitting anything...electrofished there once a month for several years with my (departed) good friend, TPWD striped bass man, Ed Bonn. I also electrofished Alcoa Lake in Rockdale, Fairfield, Monticello, and other cooling and/or storage reservoirs. We'd collect fish for tissue analysis and other things, but turned in each and every entire fish collected, on ice. We never left any dead fish laying around or took only partial samples.

Same when I collected fish for an environmental study in the Houston Ship Channel. Part of my deal was to dispose of any unused fish. We always had some that were outside the spec for what we needed. Too big or small, blue cats, mullets, etc. The folks I was working for asked me what I was doing with all the fish waste....I told 'em China Town was right around the corner and they were givin' me a buck a pound for whatever was big enough to get a weight on. They were appropriately horrified until I said I had a sanitary landfill and was using hydrated lime to help dispose of the organic waste material.

I've done fish collection studies all over the US for all kinds of reasons. Thing is, no study is going to leave carcasses laying about in public.

they go in the trash like the book say's but who reads it right .!let them catch you throw them on the bank ...!