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Legitimate_Bat3240 t1_j5lejno wrote

Wouldn't this make the fish great filters? Would the fish be more economical to use that the magnetic liquid?

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TheThingsWeMake t1_j5lhlav wrote

You'd have to remove the fish from the foodchain/ecosystem once they absorbed the chemicals in that case (and not eat them), which is probably not feasible or ideal.

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Ferociousfeind t1_j5lhynn wrote

Well, then what do we do with the fish? Just not sell it to customers? That'd put a big strain on the fishing industry, which may push them to cut corners and do more ecological damage to the environment to make ends meet

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Legitimate_Bat3240 t1_j5lldy4 wrote

Breed them for more filter fish then dispose of them? Idk, just a thought that I haven't put any time into

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Ferociousfeind t1_j5lsklz wrote

It's good to talk things out to help develop ideas. What if the fish become invasive, for example? It invariably happens, see all the times we accidentally introduced X species (usually rat) to non-native lands, then intentionally introduced Y species (bird or cat most often) to deal with X, and instead X and Y are both flourishing, devastating the local ecosystem.

Biological solutions are almost always dangerous and difficult to control like that, unfortunately.

Magnets don't reproduce, so generally there won't be magnet-outbreaks, you know?

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lintinmypocket t1_j5lphlp wrote

Catch the fish, process the concentrated chemicals out of them, then sell the fish.

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bitcoins t1_j5nf40e wrote

Stick magnets on the fish

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jnelsoni t1_j5nv7ht wrote

Then take the contamination from the fish that gets sucked out by a magnet and shoot it into outer space.

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