#1706498 - 02/02/1701:54 PM
Re: CT General Assembly January 2017 proposition to BAN the USE, mfc and sale of fishing tackle containing LEAD!
[Re: Don P]
Where do you get the <1/4oz size being the approximate limit to what diving birds will ingest? If it's from a study you might want to share the report with your local representative.
I doubt anyone on this forum would voluntarily eat one of our own lead sinkers, so if this is a real issue with diving birds experiencing statistically significant higher rates of mortality or lower annual recruitment as a result of ingesting lead fishing weights then I will happily switch to a non-toxic material - but a cross board ban is just the typical hysterics influenced legislation that this state puts out.
I don't see how a bird is going to die from lead exposure after eating the 1/4oz worth of lead at the end of my 4/0 steel fishing hook that got snagged on the bottom without the hook doing it in long before the lead does. A little 3/16 oz split shot on the other hand? Yes.