Stop the Torture!!

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Stop the Torture!!

• Trout fishing on the Tellico River

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This is a healthy, native Brook Trout
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Trout Fishing on the Tellico

• Each day on the Tellico River dozens of fishermen
  catch hundreds of fish.
• Thousands of fish are caught monthly
• Tens of thousands of fish are caught annually

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Trout Fishing on the Tellico

• The fishwho peacefully swam in the Tellico only
  minutes beforeare disemboweled. Their entrails
  ripped out and thrown in the river

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Brook Trout

• Once alive, this Brook Trout now resides
  stuffedon a Trout Fishermans mantle. A trophy
  of its own death.

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Brook Trout

• The United States Forest Service has stated a
  goal of protecting the native Brook Trout
• They intend to accomplish this by minimizing
  watershed sedimentation but ignore the real
  killer.

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Rainbow Trout

• Rainbow Trout are native to a small watershed in
  Great Britain. They are a popular sportfish that
  has been introduced worldwide. These voracious
  fish eat faster and more than the native Brook
  trout, leading to mass Brook trout starvation.

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Rainbow Trout

• The small Brookies cant compete

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Rainbow Trout

• The Forest Service poisons the River with
  rotenone
• yet continues to stock Rainbows

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Catch and Release

• Instead of immediately and humanely killing their
  catch, trout fishing purists believe in Catch
  and Release fishing.

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Catch and Release

• Believing that the fish will live to be caught
  another day, the trout have been yanked from
  their aquatic home, returned near death, and die
  a slow, painful death out of sight of the
  purists.

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Catch and Release

• Removing this hook will cause irreparable damage.
  This fish will never again be able to eat a live
  fly or aquatic insect. It will die a horrible
  death of starvation.

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• This fish will die

This fish will die
It is already dying
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This fish will die
This fish will die
They are already dead
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Please Help

• Will this Brookie live or be doomed to starvation
  at the hands of bigger Rainbows or death by Catch
  and Release?
• She needs your help now. Please call the United
  States Forest Service and demand that trout
  fishing on the Tellico be banned immediately!!
  You are her only hope.