Maine is restocking its ponds by dropping fish out of the sky
Holy carp!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a tank full of fish being dropped out of a plane.
One of the responsibilities of the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife is to restock fish in hard-to-reach ponds throughout the state. The department posted a video on Tuesday showing how it does so – by dropping the fish out of the sky right into the water.
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The video begins with fish hatchery personnel pouring a bucket of fish into a yellow tankard attached to a plane. At about 10 seconds in, you can see the fish sloshing around in the tank aboard the aircraft.
The real action begins at about 1:25 of the video. As the plane flies low over a pond, the tank is flipped over and the fish launch to their new watery homes.
Look out below!
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