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 The Oxygen Edge™ website is 15% sales and 85% advanced fish care primer using supplemental oxygen, not air. It’s an advanced fish care transport manual, prepared for sport fishermen and commercial fishermen.

Te website includes scientifically proven methods for safely transport live game fish and “SUPERCHARGING” live bait in any livewell or bait tank. Exchanging livewell water to eliminate metabolic toxins several times daily, non-iodized salt (for freshwater species) and especially the right dose of pure 100% supplemental oxygen administration is the magic key to maintaining excellent transport water quality for live fish and live bait transports in the summer and for overnight captivity.

Maintaining continuous 100% DO Saturation or DO Supersaturation in hauling tank water is the Gold DO Standard required by all Federal, State and private fish hatcheries for all live fish transport regardless of the stocking density, 1 lb., 100 lbs. or 500 lbs. of live mature fish or live bait fish, freshwater or marine species. Cold water species require nearly 3 times more oxygen than warm water species require.

85% of this website is about live transport water quality, preventing livewell suffocation in the summer and how to insure the absolute best live fish transport care possible in 2022 (fish hatchery DO standards requires for live fish transport. water dissolved oxygen. Keeping mature tournament game fish and live bait fish alive and healthy for hours of hot summer transports. Continue reading and learn about this new paradigm shift, innovative oxygen-injection livewell technology specifically designed and engineered so any sportfisherman fisherman can be an expert live fish transporter every summer.

You will find many expert opinions here from University Professors, Federal and State Fishery DNR’s officials, Fish Physiologist, Fishery biologist including published scientific white-paper publications within this Primer.

APPLY THE OXYGEN EDGE™ TECHNOLOGY AS INSTRUCTED AND WATER QUALITY KNOWLEDGE FOUND ON THIS WEBSITE AND YOU CAN BE A VERY SUCCESSFUL TRANSPORTING LIVE GAME FISH AND LIVE BAIT EVERY SUMMER TOO.

LEARN “HOW TO” MANAGE LIVEWELL WATER QUALITY AND WITH THE RIGHT OXYGEN LIFE SUPPORT LIVEWELL EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR LIVEWELL /BAIT TANK AND YOU CAN BE AS SUCCESSFULL TRANSPORTING LIVE FISH AND BAIT AS ANY FEDERAL, STATE AND PRIVATE FISH HATCHERY WORLD-WIDE. ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IS IN IN THIE WEBSITE… ENJOY, BE SUCCESSFUL EVERY SUMMER TRANSPORTING LIVE HEALTHY FISH THE REST OF YOUR FISHING LIFE – David Kinser, CEO

The Oxygen Edge™ is the original aftermarket commercial livewell oxygen injection life support system specifically designed for sport fisherman and commercial fishermen in 1993 and continues to date. The Edge “Supercharges” live bait and prevents summer livewell suffocation during extended live transports. Fishermen have absolute control of livewell dissolved oxygen whether transporting 1 lb. of live bait or hundreds of lbs. of bait several days.

See: https://oxyedge-chum.com/history/texas-am-university-tested-may-1993-2/    The Oxygen Edge™ is the Gold Standard for live bait and fishing oxygen life-support system. The Edge is the only oxygen system engineered and manufactured for use in marine environments.

David A. Kinser, entrepreneur, researcher, inventor, designer, and gas life support equipment expert known for “thinking outside the box,” challenging and debunking old fisherman myths and old out-dated electrical mechanical aeration technology.  Kinser is never shy about calling out those slick salesmanship tactics, asking salesmen those tough livewell/bait tank water quality questions. Kinser identified and fixed the livewell enigma that has killed live bait and fish in transport live haul tanks (livewells/bait tanks) for hundreds of years that happens every summer… lack of oxygen, hypoxia and death by suffocation in summer livewells.

The solution is so simple… just don’t suffocate the live bait in summer livewells and bait tanks and change the livewell water a few times daily. If fish or live bait in your livewell need more oxygen in summer livewells — give them more oxygen, NOT MORE AIR.

Many make the claim that oxygen is air and air is oxygen, but every Doctor, nurse, EMT, respiratory therapist, nurses aid, welder, jeweler, plumber, auto mechanic, submariner, astronauts, fish physiologist, University Aquaculture Professosr, fish hatchery manager and fish transport staff, some fishery biologist, aircraft pilots, pro football players, mountaineers, SCUBA and commercial divers, 8th grade General Science students, a few sport fishermen and Kinser KNOW THAT OXYGEN IS A VERY DIFFERENT GAS THAN AMBIENT AIR.

Kinser identified and fixed the number 1 summer livewell water quality problem that kills live bait in bait tanks and livewells and tournament game fish.  Livewell hypoxia (suffocation) is the most common problem that kills live bait and game fish in livewells and bait tanks every summer during live transports.

SUSTAINED LIVEWELL/BAIT TANK SUFFOCATION DURINGSUMMER TRANSPORTS OFTEN RESULT IN HIGH LIVE BAIT AND TOURNAMENT GAME FISH MORTALITY/MORBIDITY).  

Did the fisherman fail to provide enough dissolved oxygen for his fish in the livewell or did the livewell fail to provide safe continuous oxygenation for all the fish transported in the livewell?

The answer is the fisherman and the livewell both failed to insure minimal safe continuous oxygenation in the summer resulting in high mortality/morbidity.  Sustained frank suffocation killed the fish in the fisherman’s livewell/bait tank. The summer livewell kill is high during the day and much higher at night.

Kinser oxygen-injection life support technology insures safe continuous oxygenation even during the most hostile summer conditions in overcrowded livewell day and night.

Of course no livewell/bait tank manufacturer, aerator or  bait pump manufacturers would never guarantee their product to deliver minimal safe dissolved oxygen for a livewell full of live bait fish in Dog Days of Summer… Kinser’s  commercial oxygen-injection technology was a Paradyme shift in live fish transport oxygenating technology. This dramatic change in fish transport care (supplemental oxygenation) was unheard of in the sport fishing industry pre  1993..

Livewell oxygen supplementation was truly a Revolutionary advancement (a Paradyme shift) that insured safe oxygenation continuously for live bait and live tournament fish transports every summer – but a higher dose of oxygen is guaranteed to SUPERCHARGE LIVE BAIT. Kinser’s new livewell oxygen injection technology trumped all mechanical aeration systems, air pump aerators, spray bars, bubble rocks, water pumps, ice, hypothermia that are recommended and used to insure safe livewell oxygenation historically to date. All of this being less than the best method of insuring safe continuous oxygenation of livewell water.

The “9-Dot Puzzle” is one of Kinser’s favorites.

Kinser, the company founder applied 27 years of human medical experience using oxygen life support systems to his new venture.  Kinser’s expertise with life support technology, physiology, human oxygen life support oxygen system concepts, design, fabrication, modifications, novel applications, hyperbaric medicine, design/manufacture mono-place hyperbaric oxygen chamber, PADI SCUBA Certified Dive Master and medical school teaching led him to embark in a new novel professional direction… Commercial aquatic life support oxygen-injection systems for live fish transports. Kinser engineered and designed his fishing oxygen system specifically for sport fishermen and commercial fishermen that transport live baitfish and live tournament game fish wanting the lowest possible summer mortality/morbidity.

Kinser, an oxygen therapy life support equipment expert, avid live bait fisherman and tournament angler for decades has an exact understanding of gas chemistry, physics and physiology. He knows “the right stuff” about keeping live bait and tournament fish alive and healthy for hours of live transport especially in the most adverse, hostile, hot summer conditions day and night. He expertise includes oxygen fire safety. Long term captivity and stockpiling live bait for weeks is easy when you overstock your livewells and bait tanks, but you must provided minimal safe oxygenation is administered continuously at the right dose along with controlling fish toxin accumulations in livewell water.

Kinser’s Customer Service ethic is unmatched by no one. He’s a Pro and takes the time to share all this professional fish care information, knowledge and technical support with every customer. Every customer’s success is paramount to our business, what we do for a living. We do far more for our customers than just build and sell them fishing oxygen systems. Kinser feels it is absolutely necessary that all customers receive complete written instructions.

Kinser recognized the summer mortality was caused by low-no dissolved oxygen in livewell water. Sloppy bait problems, red nose was the result of suffocation caused when transporting live bait and tournament game fish in boat livewell and bait tanks every summer. Summer livewell mortality/morbidity has always been deadly. Dying live bait and tournament fish are expensive and predictable every summer for the next 100 years.

Clearly the solution to this ancient live bait transport problem was illusive and cryptic for all live bait and tournament fishermen. Their live bait and fish kept on dying decade after decade every summer.  Live transports and overnight captivity losses were high and expensive.  Fishermen modified livewell shapes, colors, used all kinds of livewell additives, chemicals, tranquilizers, stimulants, dyes, antibiotics, ice, this and that brand aerator, livewell water pimps that entrains ambient air via venturi on the inlet side of the water pumps, spray bars, air pumps and bubble stones and so on. Expensive high volume livewell water pumps that literally pumped hundreds of gallons of water through livewells every hour continuously and of course tons of ice to chill the well water (hypothermia) trying to reduce live bait and tournament fish mortality/morbidity every summer… all of this stuff failed and the band played on.

The whole point of this futile exercise was about trying to prevent livewell suffocation and all of this faileb miserably again and again hoping to have minimal safe DO saturation in livewell water…. but, a lot of people and many companies made multi-millions of USD over the past 1/ century promoting and selling this “stuff.”

Kinser knew that most fishermen have forgotten their high school Chemistry 101 class… Henry’s Gas Law controls how much oxygen (concentration and saturation) that will actually dissolve into livewell water and into the fish’s blood. 

Fishermen do like to overcrowd their livewells and bait tanks every summer with 1 or more extra baits or fish. That overcrowding is when the suffocation, death and dying begins during live summer transports.

The summer livewell killer was neither cryptic nor illusive in Kinser’s eyes. He measured the dissolved oxygen in his aerated livewell containing his normal over-load of bait and heavy tournament limit. He tested the DO and found the low oxygen problem crystal clear. The livewell DO water quality was far below “safe,” the fish were suffocating because of chronic sustained livewell hypoxia… hypoxia is the problem, summer livewelll suffocation was the “cryptic killer.”  That low DO water quality problem every summer was corrected by administering the right dose of commercial welding oxygen continuously, not too much oxygen, but not too little oxygen either.

For Kinser, this hypoxia problem and solution was not only clear, but extremely easy to fix and fix forever too. When/if the problem is hypoxia, insufficient oxygen and hypoxia, the only logical solution is to simply to administer a controlled dose of supplemental oxygen and dissolve the oxygen in livewell water,,, that’s a no-brainer for Kinser when the YSI DO meter probe was put into the livewell water containing a healthy load of bait fish.

Just deliver the right dose of pure oxygen required for all the live bait and tournament fish in the livewell, adjust the dose of pure oxygen that measures 100% DO saturation or DO super-saturation continuously… Kinser knew the solution and solved that cryptic suffocation problem within a couple days after he saw the low DO Meter reading that summer day.

Kinser fixed the low oxygen problem , invented revolutionary a new ground breaking oxygen life support technology  roe transporting live fish safely in the summer.

Enter The Oxygen Edge™, the first commercial  livewell oxygen-injection system built for sport fishermen and commercial fishermen for use in marine and freshwater environments.

So, how much oxygen does your live bait and tournament fish really needed to fix this summer low oxygen mortality problem? The right amount of oxygen depends 100% on your day to day, hour to hour stocking density and the season, more fish/live bait need more oxygen in the summer, less in the fall, winter and spring north of the equator, just the opposite south of the equator… that’s pretty simple.

THE RIGH DOSE OF SUPPLEMENTAL OXYGEN THAT INSURES MINIMAL SUSTAINED SAFE LIVEWELL OXYGENATION DURING LIVE TRANSPORT IS 100% -150% DO SUPERSATURATION.

SUPERCHARGINGF LIVE BAIT REQUIRES 150% DO SUPERSATURATION TO 175% DO SUPERSATURATION

IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHETHER TRANSPORTING 1 LB. OF LIVE BAIT OR 500 LBS. OF FISH

Adding more oxygen to livewell water does not mean adding more air, more water flow or bubbling more ambient air  into your livewell water. More air does not, cannot, will not insure minimal safe oxygenation for all the live bait or live fish in any overcrowded summer transport conditions… that’s a myth promoted by aerator and bait tank salesmen, outdoors writers writing fishing articles, testimonials of fishing forum gurus and the average live baiter.

Fishery science, research, chemistry laws and fish hatchery live haul transport DO water quality standards (100% DO saturation or Supersaturation) is so very different than the EPA DO water quality standard (5 PPM DO) in the steady state environment found in lakes, rivers and streams.

Minimal safe DO water quality standards required for all professional live fish transports world-wide is 100% DO Saturation or greater maintained continuously until the live transport is over.

Kinser knew a very simple solution to fix these summer livewell kills for fishermen transporting live bait in overstocked livewells and bait tanks…  a paradigm shift for sport fishermen in oxygenating livewell/bait tank water. The correct dose of 100% supplemental oxygen administration corrects the suffocation problem. Deliver the right dose of supplemental welding oxygen into the livewell water continuously during transport.

Back in the early 1990’s there were no commercial fishing oxygen systems built for sport fishermen. Fishing oxygen life support transport systems had not been discovered, invented nor manufactured yet. This oxygen life support system used for live fish transport was not available to sport fishermen.

USING AMBIENT AIR (,21% OXYGEN) AND AMBIENT FRESH WATER EXPOSED TO <21% OXYGEN  – MAXIMUM STOCKING DENSITY IS 1 LB. BAIT/FISH PER OR LESS PER 1 GALLON LIVEWELL WATER.

USING SUPPLEMENTAL PURE 100% OXYGEN – MAXIMUM STOCKING DENSITY IS 2.5 LB. to 3.O LBS. WHEN TRANSPORTING LIVE BAIT/FISH PER 1 GALLON LIVEWELL WATER. 

Kinser says that the solution to the hypoxic water quality problem is the right dose of gaseous oxygen. This solution is not cryptic or magical at all, but it is and has been elusive for many decades. Like air, nitrogen gas, hydrogen, helium, oxygen gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless. All these gases make clear bubbles in livewell water and will dissolve in livewell water… but, safe saturations of dissolved oxygen in livewell water is absolutely the most important water quality gas for fish. The line between safe and unsafe dissolved oxygen saturation for live fish transports in livewells and bait tanks is distinct and unmistakable when tested with fish in the livewell.

The death and dying begin when that line is crossed, you can see the bait and fish behavior deterorate  when suffocation begins.

.It happens quickly every time you overstock your livewell/bait tank with live bait or tournament gamefish every summer. An absolute red-line in the sand is clearly visible when you know what the fish hatchery DO Saturation requirements are for live fish transports. Fishermen do not need a DO meter to know when you have crossed the hypoxic line in you livewell water is crossed, your bait’s abnormal behavior will tell you, those fish will tell you.

Kinser knew how to measure dissolved oxygen with a DO Meter and he knew how much oxygen was safe and when the dissolved oxygen saturation was not safe in livewells. When the O2 saturation was not safe, he knew the correct dose of oxygen to administer. He knew how to correct that “low oxygen livewell problem” that fishermen experience every summer. He knew exactly how much oxygen 1 lb. or 500 lbs. of fish and live bait needed for transports in a livewell to insure 100% DO Saturation continuously. He knew the summer killer in livewells was suffocation/chronic sustained livewell hypoxia caused by overcrowding and he knew that more air, mechanical aerators, livewell water pumps, more water flush, shape of livewell, livewell chemicals or H2O2 would never correct the low oxygen problem in overcrowded summer livewells. More mechanical aeration nor greater volumes of water flushed through the livewell would not correct the low oxygen water quality problems in the summer.

Kinser knew that the correction requires supplemental oxygen administration greater that 21% oxygen un ambient air, pure 100% oxygen was needed and the correct dose needed to be delivered and dissolved into the livewell water continuously. That would take much more oxygen-enrichment > than 24% oxygen.  He also knew that inexpensive 100% commercial welding oxygen, the same gaseous oxygen that all State and Federal fish hatcheries use to insure minimal safe oxygen for all their live fish transports would work great and be cost effective.

TP&WD requires pure 100% compressed oxygen for all live fish transports, even when TP&WD is transporting only 1 lonely ShareLunker 13 lb. trophy bass 9-10 hours across Texas back to Athens. The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas also uses pure 100% oxygen when transporting live fish from around the world to the New Orleans aquarium. They never use aeration (air) to oxygenate transport water. Sometimes they may use mechanical aeration for off-gassing dissolved CO2.

Kinser knew that professional live fish transports never use mechanical aeration to insure minimal safe oxygenation for any live transports, even for a short 20 minute transport from 1 hatchery building to another – they are the real professional live fish transport experts, their job depends on their success.

Kinser imagined, invented and manufactured a new aquatic life support technology for sport fishermen that worked. Supplemental oxygen rendered mechanical aerators, air pumps and bait pumps obsolete and marketed a new innovative commercial fishing oxygen-injection system that was quiet, portable, cost effective, could be used in any boat livewell, bait tank, ice chest or 5 gallon plastic bucket… The correct dose of pure 100% oxygen worked great! Plenty of pure oxygen fixed the low oxygen summer livewell problem for ever.

Delivering and dissolving the right dose of oxygen into livewell water satisfy the oxygen demand required by all the live bait and fish in the livewell.

Because of Kinser’s professional training, experience, unique insight and ability to “think out of the box,”  he recognized that sport fisherman’s excessive summer live bait and tournament fish mortality problems was caused by poor livewell water quality specifically poor oxygenation.

Kinser built the oxygen technology that delivered the correct dose of oxygen continuously satisfying the oxygen demand for all the live bait and fish being transported; the summer low oxygen problem and high mortality vanished forever in overcrowded livewells and bait tanks.

Fishermen simply needed to provide the right dose of oxygen into their livewell water every summer and stop the suffocation (livewell/bait tank hypoxia) and this ancient live fish transport problem is gone forever. Fishermen can keep live bait alive and tournament fish alive all day every summer with an oxygen injection system and also seriously overcrowd their livewells in 90 F livewell water safely every summer.

The amount of oxygen required to insure “safe continuous oxygenation for live transports is 100% DO Saturation whether the transport is 1 fish or 1000 fish in the livewell; Saltwater or fresh water specie makes no difference, gold fish, killfish, tuna or mehhaden makes no difference, all must have a continuous supply of dissolved oxygen at or near 100% DO Saturation while being transported in livewells, bait tanks and live haul tanks. Cold water specie need nearly 3 time as much oxygen per lb. of fish than warm water specie during transport.

Kinser worked with Gene Gilliland providing The Oxygen Edge™ and technical expertise about livewell oxygen-injection supplementation, oxygen gas safety, oxygen equipment safety, oxygen and boat safety for Gilliland’s research project, mid-summer 1999 in Oklahoma.

Kinser reviewed the draft before final publication and provided recommendations including the final draft and publication of “KEEPING BASS ALIVE” A Guidebook for Anglers and Tournament Organizers; a B.A.S.S./ESPN tournament bass care publication ©2000.

Kinser’s expertise extended world-wide into offshore saltwater tournament fishing, transporting and “Supercharging” large offshore live bait (goggle-eye, pilchards, tuna, anchovy, whitebaits, etc.) and near shore C&R fishing tournament fishing along the Gulf Texas Coast and the Atlantic East Coast. Tournament Red fish, speckled trout, bone fish, bass, crappie, striper, catfish, bass, striper, crappie, catfish are species have increased summer tournament survival dramatically because of the right dose of supplemental oxygen administered by contestants all day on tournament boat livewells, weigh-in holding tanks and live release boats.

Fishermen no longer needed to stress-out all day in any summer C&R tournament about the dreaded “dead fish punishments.” No lost money because a fish suffocated in an aerated boat livewell, no  livewell pump noise, no dead batteries, water pump and aerator pump failures have no negative impact on fish survival, no ice or livewell chemicals needed , those old days were gone. Now you could choose the best livewell care or choose the old aeration and livewell pump technology that is so old-fashioned, definitely far less than the best livewell care for your catch… Supplemental oxygenation was REVOLUTIONARY. Now fishermen could choose the best or less than the best the livewell fish care they are were willing their catch for 7-8 hours on their boat.

The OEdge was the first turn-on-and-forget livewell oxygen-injection system that consistently delivered the correct amount of oxygen for all the catch in the livewell. The new oxygen technology (life support system) was absolutely dependable, always worked and never failed in the most adverse summer conditions every summer… and  if any bass tournament fisherman  had a great day at a summer tournament on Lake Amistad near Del Rio, Texas in August, he could safely transport a limit of (5) 10 lb. bass. His limit could transported 7-8 hours (all day)  in his 25 gallon boat livewell… and never give the dead fish punishment penalty a second thought. His fish would be fine, well oxygenated at weigh-in. How many times daily does a tournament stop fishing, look in the livewell and hope he doesn’t see a fish floating? You know the routine.

The Oxygen Edge™ is the first commercial designed/manufactured livewell oxygen-injection system, the aquatic life support system built for sport fishermen and commercial fishermen sold world-wide.

Kinser always provides a unique professional customer service. You will see evidence of this as you explore this web site. Kinser feels it is necessary that quality time is spent with each customer so the customer understands how to use oxygen, the equipment and techniques  to achieve excellent live transport results, consistently make the highest quality live bait and keep it healthy, a clear understanding of oxygen (the pure gas),  oxygen safety on boats and how to use the Oxygen Edge™ equipment to effectively and safely “Supercharge ” and keep live bait and tournament fish alive and healthy for hours and  days in captivity, how to manage livewell water quality like fish hatchery professionals, how to achieve the very best outcome  for your live bait and fish transports and much, much  more. How to provide the BEST live bait care and tournament fish care possible.

Kinser knew that using pure 100% oxygen  requires special knowledge and special oxygen equipment. Particular attention to oxygen gas and oxygen  equipment safety was paramount, oxygen enrichment is certainly nothing like air and aeration. Oxygen-injection systems are not mechanical aerators or livewell water pumps… the “Rules of the Oxygen Road” are necessary to know before you purchase or use pure 100% oxygen or any oxygen system that is capable of creating any oxygen-rich conditions.

David A. Kinser is responsible for the Revolutionary Change that advanced mechanical aeration livewell and bait tank technology to commercial Supplemental Livewell Oxygenation Technology, the first livewell oxygen-injection technology commercially made for sport fishermen world-wide.

The Oxygen Edge™ is the original commercial fishing oxygen-injection livewell systems that eliminated summer livewell and bait tank transport mortality caused by hot summer livewell water, overstocking, insufficient dissolved oxygen saturations… deadly chronic sustained livewell hypoxia – Poor livewell and bait tank water quality – frank suffocation.

Kinser changed the sport fishing industry dramatically in 1993 for the better because of the advent of commercial fishing oxygen-injection systems he made for the sport fishermen.

Kinser is responsible for and caused this Paradigm Shift in livewell oxygenation technology that eliminated high summer livewell mortality and morbidity that is caused by low unsafe oxygen levels commonly found in all aerated boat livewells and bait tanks world-wide… he ended summer livewell suffocation forever by administering the right dose of pure 100% oxygen.