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BONEFISH CONSERVATION IS IMPORTANT

Bonefish C&R tournaments held every summer insure unnatural extreme, continuous fish stress from the moment of the bite to days after the tournament is over. The greatest stressor is lack of oxygen, suffocation, hypoxia during transport.

LIVEWELL HYPOXIA (LACK OF OXYGEN IN LIVEWELL/BAIT TANK WATER DURING LIVE TRANSPORTS) CAN MAME AND KILL, SUFFOCATE BONEFISH IN LIVEWELLS IN SUMMER TOURNAMENTS. THE RIGHT DOSE OF OXYGEN DELIVERED CONTINUOUSLY DURIND TRANSPORT BY OXYGEN EDGE™ INSURES OPTIMAL, SAFE, CONTINUOUS SAFE OXYGENATION ALL DAY.  JUST DIAL IN THE CORRECT DOSE OF PURE OXYGEN.

IF 1 BONEFISH DIES IN YOUR LIVEWELL IN A SUMMER TOURNAMENT YOU WILL LOSE THE PRIZE. THAT IS A FACT.

Tournament bonefish angled in summer tournaments need oxygen when transported in closed boat livewells every   summer. Without enough dissolved oxygen provided continuously in livewell water with mechanical aerators, low oxygen, suffocation, hypoxia, hypoxic stress, >mortality and morbidity is imminent and predictable in any summer tournament.

FACT: Many tournament anglers turn off their livewell water pumps/aerators when fishing shallow flats because electric pumps make so much noise and vibration spooking bonefish.

When the livewell water pumps and aerators are turned off, the DO can fall quickly to dangerously low hypoxic levels resulting in severe suffocation and additional transport stress.

Low DO, suffocation, hypoxia is the most serious livewell water quality stressor for all tournament fish being transported all day in boat livewells every summer.

Dissolved oxygen saturation (DO Sat) levels in livewells often falls to dangerously low levels when anglers turn off livewell water pumps and aerators. There’s no fresh water pumped into the livewells continuously for long periods of time in the flats as captive fish consume the little DO available.

FACT: Most tournament fishermen that do turn off their noisy livewell pumps when fishing shallow water flats do worry continuously about the negative effects of low oxygen levels in livewells, dying and dead fish and the dead fish penalties in every summer C&R tournament.

FACT: When the livewell pumps/aerators are not humming, the fishermen’s stress always increases. That stress is constant and palpable, but not life threatening … captive angled bonefish transported in hypoxic livewells experience deadly stress  far more serious experienced by the fisherman.

FACT: Administering uncontrolled doses of supplemental oxygen for bonefish is not risk free for the fish. The dose of oxygen delivered into the livewell must be specific, regulated and controlled by the fisherman. Administering too much oxygen can be risky for Bones.

Bonefish need a steady supply of oxygen like all aerobic animals and will suffocate without enough oxygen like people. Hypoxic human neonates and some patients with advanced COPD need additional oxygen but giving them too much oxygen can have consequences. Too much oxygen may cause blindness (retrolental fibroplasia) in neonates and suppress respiration or cause respiratory arrest in COPD patents — so be careful with the oxygen, only inject the correct dose of oxygen into your livewell water.

Anglers using supplemental oxygen must take care to not over-oxygenate livewell water when administering supplemental oxygen. Excessive over-oxygenation in livewells may reduce recovery time post live release.

The Oxygen Edge™ regulator ensures the correct dose of oxygen is delivered when the dose is adjusted correctly. Dial in the total weight (total pounds of bonefish) of your catch on the OE regulator and be assured the correct dose of oxygen will be delivered… no over  or under oxygenation. Simply turn on the oxygen cylinder valve and adjust the correct dose of oxygen on the oxygen regulator. Dial in lbs. of fish (total stocking density of bonefish in your livewell ) on the OE regulator.

The correct dose of oxygen is based on the total biomass of bonefish being transported. Larger stocking density requires larger doses of oxygen, lower stocking densities require smaller doses of oxygen. The amount of dissolved oxygen the total catch needs in the livewell has nothing to do with the physical characteristics of the livewell, the size, shape, color or volume of water in the livewell.

Maintaining normobaric dissolved oxygen saturation at are near 100% DO Saturation is important for captive bonefish being transported in closed boat livewells all day and bonefish in holding tanks as the biomass of fish changes minute to minute. Fish being caught, added, transported in boat livewells and held collectively in holding tanks requires larger doses of compressed oxygen.

Dissolved oxygen meters are used to test Dissolved Oxygen Saturation and Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations.

It is vital to know what to do after testing livewell and holding tank DO. aWhat to do with the test results is very simple… If the DO tests are too low, increase the dose of oxygen. If the oxygen tests are too high, reduce the dose of oxygen. Whatever you do, keep the livewell water DO saturated in fully stocked livewells.

The angler as well as the tournament organizers are both responsible for ensuring minimal safe DO Saturations while the fish are being transported every summer. The DO can only be determined by testing with a dissolved oxygen meter, then the dose of oxygen delivered may be increased or decreased to constantly maintain 100% DO Saturation (+ or – 1-2%) for the duration of the live transport. Ensuring safe DO is most critical in summer tournaments when environmental water temperatures exceed 75 F.