Microfishing?

Microfishing?
Posted 2022-08-10 12:13:26 #814885 So.... This started as a joke between friends. Namely that I'd been tripping over him on so many other areas of the game that it had just become a game of where to find him. The fishing minigame. After a string of Sailfin Mollies was what I was catching, I suddenly wanted to find out who would even submit such a tiny fish and lock themselves for 10 minutes. So I go to check the fishspecies boards and there he is again. Cue lots of laughter. But then that also reminded me that there is actually a sport called Microfishing. Originally started in Japan as tanago, which is also the name of a tiny baitfish that's commonly caught and eaten. There tanago fishermen find the challenge in catching the smallest fish possible and as the hobby has moved into the West, it has become a way of appreciating small species diversity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0eQ_JzjIM https://youtu.be/8ThPuKK0mks https://growlermag.com/gotta-catch-em-small-growing-micro-fishing-trend-has-twin-cities-roots/ https://www.odditycentral.com/news/microfishing-when-the-tiniest-fish-becomes-the-biggest-catch.html So, instead of the heaviest catch being the only option to interact with the fishing game. As ecologically, it's not great to grab the biggest fish all the time, since big fish are old fish and old fish are your breeders, and trying to constantly go for huge sizes as trophies probably should be phased out as the norm in the global mindset. (Ex. Here's prize bluefin tuna catch from the 1930s, and here's what's considered a newsworthy catch in 2019 (still a 700lbs fish, but well, they were bigger once)). Could we instead consider more of a "race to the lowest" type of competition, where we try to submit as many fish as we can, but also have the smallest overall weight or most variety of tiny species? Effectively, bringing Microfishing in as an additional niche game type in the Fishing minigame?	Amut #10327

Posted 2022-08-10 12:13:26

#814885

So.... This started as a joke between friends. Namely that I'd been tripping over him on so many other areas of the game that it had just become a game of where to find him. The fishing minigame. After a string of Sailfin Mollies was what I was catching, I suddenly wanted to find out who would even submit such a tiny fish and lock themselves for 10 minutes. So I go to check the fishspecies boards and there he is again. Cue lots of laughter.

But then that also reminded me that there is actually a sport called Microfishing. Originally started in Japan as tanago, which is also the name of a tiny baitfish that's commonly caught and eaten. There tanago fishermen find the challenge in catching the smallest fish possible and as the hobby has moved into the West, it has become a way of appreciating small species diversity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0eQ_JzjIM
https://youtu.be/8ThPuKK0mks
https://growlermag.com/gotta-catch-em-small-growing-micro-fishing-trend-has-twin-cities-roots/
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/microfishing-when-the-tiniest-fish-becomes-the-biggest-catch.html

So, instead of the heaviest catch being the only option to interact with the fishing game. As ecologically, it's not great to grab the biggest fish all the time, since big fish are old fish and old fish are your breeders, and trying to constantly go for huge sizes as trophies probably should be phased out as the norm in the global mindset. (Ex. Here's prize bluefin tuna catch from the 1930s, and here's what's considered a newsworthy catch in 2019 (still a 700lbs fish, but well, they were bigger once)).

Could we instead consider more of a "race to the lowest" type of competition, where we try to submit as many fish as we can, but also have the smallest overall weight or most variety of tiny species? Effectively, bringing Microfishing in as an additional niche game type in the Fishing minigame?

Amut
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