{"id":8169,"date":"2025-05-04T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:08:27","slug":"why-science-makes-me-go-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/why-science-makes-me-go-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Science makes me go fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; woodmart_inline=&#8221;no&#8221; text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Fishing is a personal thing. If you asked a group of fishermen why they head out, you may get many different replies. To bring home a feed, others to relax and some may say for the company or mateship. I go for the science or as it is more commonly referred to these days, citizen science. A definition of Citizen Science is the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fish I catch are tagged and released and my fishing trips around Brisbane are planned around this. The tag I place in a fish has its own individual number + a phone number and basic instructions saying record date place and length. If it is recaptured the details are matched against the original tag details I have submitted which are entered into a central data base.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I do this you ask? Well, I am interested in the fish as such. Growth rates, survival, movements and population sizes. This is the citizen science aspect. I still get the \u201cfun\u201d of catching the fish but get to watch them swim off to be caught another day + add to the information being gathered on that species. It is a pretty amazing feeling watching a big snapper, jew, thready or even a big yellowfin bream head back to where they come from. I also like the personal challenge aspect of tagging. Trying to tag your biggest snapper or a certain number of a particular species. I have been tagging fish for over 25 years now through Suntag Qld and still love it.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; woodmart_inline=&#8221;no&#8221; text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;] Fishing is a personal thing. If you asked a group of fishermen why they head out,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Lachie-Big-Snapper__FillMaxWzY0MCw0ODBd.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aakuna.net.au\/stonescornerdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}