tgb comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tgb 12 February 2012 03:01:44PM 2 points [-]

For what it's worth, it is quite possible to at least stun fish through electricity. I know people who have done this for scientific studies of fish. It's called Electrofishing and is restricted in most places because it makes over fishing easy and requires some significant caution on the part of the fisher (you're wearing a backpack designed to produce high voltage while standing in water).