Dose the ocean: Sports Illustrated on fishing with LSD

In 1964 , Sports Illustrated run a man on scientist experimenting with LSD for commercial-grade sportfishing applications . researcher hoped that LSD could both help the removal of invasive carp and dope up commercial sportfishing population on a orotund scale .

From Sports Illustrated correspondentRobert H. Boyle :

[ … A ] pond loaded with carp affectation problem . If any of the received chemical , such as rotenone , are used , all the fish , both carp and game Pisces , usually die , aquatic insects suffer and the poison sometimes linger for months , preventing the restocking of biz Pisces the Fishes . But if a chemical could cause all the Pisces to surface for several hours without vote out them , then the undesirable Pisces could be picked out and the biz fish left to thrive . Again , a surfacing chemical would enable biologists to take a extremely accurate Pisces nosecount of a body of water without harming a Little Phoebe . A low - flying plane could shoot a treated torso of piss , and biologists , interpreting the pictures , could get a counting of metal money and populations .

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[ Howard Loeb , aged aquatic biologist at the New York State Conservation Department Fish Laboratory , ] first begin testing with LSD-25 , then , with the help of an American pharmaceutical house , Eli Lilly and Co. of Indianapolis , part testing other compounds made from d - lysergic acid . So far Loeb has screen some 40 drugs add by Lilly on carp , goldfish , golden and common shiners , blacknose Leuciscus leuciscus , icteric perch , pumpkinseed sun - fish , white patsy , bullheads , creek trout and brown trout . With the exception of the trout and the bullhead - which swim to the surface - the fish pop up to the top of the pee , float backward and often go into a stupor . Goodness knows what kinds of hallucination carp have - perhaps they dream they are gefilte fish [ … ]

Much oeuvre , of course of action , stay to be done . The drug have to be tested on aquatic vegetation , insects and , at long last , serviceman . It is now impossible to use any of the compound in the study , because no one knows what would happen to a someone who happened to swim in or fuddle from a treated pool or lake . But the tests are most supporting and the possibilities unlimited , both for sport and commercial-grade fishing . “ What I actually envision is the chemic harvesting of commercial fish , ” tell Loeb . “ It ’s come . We ’re going to bring the fish out of the lake and oceans at our level . sportfishing today is still in the hunting microscope stage . Even though the Russians have huge manufactory ships with radar and all sort of gear , they are not as effective as they could be . That still is hunt - and what we want is Pisces husbandry . I can see the day , ” Loeb says with a smile , “ when you back your freezer truck up to the dock and the fish just march justly out of the water and fillet themselves . ”

[ Spotted onDose land . Top photo from the cult Dreamcast classical Seaman ; middle photo from Waterworld . ]

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