When single blasts become repeated offenses in the same reef, recovery becomes much harder to accomplish. Furthermore, the removal of the targeted herbivorous fish is likely to reduce the resilience of the reefs to climate change and other impacts, further hampering recovery.” A 2006 study of dynamite fishing by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, detailed its impact: “The detonation of homemade bombs not only kills fish but also shatters the coral skeletons, creating expanses of unstable coral rubble. In New Jersey, it is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.Though the practice is illegal, it’s still in use throughout Southeast Asia.In Tennessee, it is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish.In Pennsylvania, dynamite is not to be used to catch fish.In Pennsylvania, you may not catch a fish by any body part except the mouth.In Oregon, canned corn is not to be used as bait for fishing.In Oklahoma, fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a bus.In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk.In Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah (none of which touch the ocean) it is illegal to go whale fishing.In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.

In Louisiana, chasing fish in a city park is against the law.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow.

In Indiana and Kansas, no one may catch fish with their bare hands.

In Muncie, Indiana it’s a crime to carry fishing tackle into a cemetery.In Chicago, it is illegal to fish in your pajamas.In Idaho, you may not fish from a camel’s back.

In California, it is against the law to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.Fishing while not breaking the law is very doable, but did you know you might be breaking some of these lesser known fishing laws? You might be breaking the law just by wearing pajamas or fishing alone on Sunday! While some of these are either so ridiculous that they are/were never enforced, or have since been repealed by governments with common sense, check out the weirdest fishing laws in American history: Make sure to have a fishing license for your state, respect the property you’re fishing on, catch and release.

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