So the bottom line is that FARM RAISED trout are as stupid as dirt?
Notice in the article that they fed the fish rubber baits.
Quote "It seems that biologists fed 38 captive brook trout a commercial trout diet mixed with a free-choice assortment of soft plastic lures over a 90-day period. "
Gee, if you're a hungry fish, and some idiot throws a realistic looking worm in your face, you bet your a$$ you'd eat it.
Maybe if these "Einsteins" tried to fish for the trout, they'd get a truer representation of the facts: Fish will TRY TO EAT the plastic, but since every fisherman that uses plastics doesn't want to lose his lure, I doubt the fish would have a chance in hell of actually swallowing them. They make it sound like we, individually, dump ALL of our plastic when we leave a brook or stream.
As for discaring used plastics, that's the googan faction at work, making us all look bad.
Maybe these so-called geniuses should go back to collecting cow-farts and leave the fish alone.