Slit and sink for bowfishing in Ohio

The Issue

In many states they will allow you to slit the air sack (swim bladder) of the fish you harvest throughout the night while bowfishing for rough fish. Ohio doesn't recognize this, and when asked why not they said because its never been brought to their attention and more and more people are bowfishing now. Im asking for the bowfishing community to pull together and get this done to keep our names out of the dirt and help prevent people from littering the banks with dead fish. I see a lot of people just starting that are shooting from the bank and driving a car, odds are these fish aren't going in the car. Let's get ahead of this and make it to where we can slit and sink.

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The Issue

In many states they will allow you to slit the air sack (swim bladder) of the fish you harvest throughout the night while bowfishing for rough fish. Ohio doesn't recognize this, and when asked why not they said because its never been brought to their attention and more and more people are bowfishing now. Im asking for the bowfishing community to pull together and get this done to keep our names out of the dirt and help prevent people from littering the banks with dead fish. I see a lot of people just starting that are shooting from the bank and driving a car, odds are these fish aren't going in the car. Let's get ahead of this and make it to where we can slit and sink.

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Petition created on October 14, 2020