It’s not commonly known that most fish you buy in the store are not wild-caught, but farm-raised. Yes, people do farm fish. There is an old apocryphal story about a game warden walking along a riverbank who encounters a fellow with a rod and reel in hand and a bucket full of water at his side; in the bucket are several fish, swimming around. The game warden asks to see the angler’s fishing license.
“Why would I need a license?” the man asks. “These are farmed fish. I’m a fish farmer. The fish need exercise to be really tasty, so every day I bring a few down and let them swim in the river for a while. I have them trained so that when I whistle, they swim back, jump in the bucket, and I take them back.”
“I need to see this for myself,” the game warden answers. “Otherwise I have to ticket you for taking these fish without a license.”
So the man dumps the bucket of fish in the water, and…
