US Patent Issued on March 11 for "Fish stunning device mountable to a fishing line" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,600, issued on March 11.

"Fish stunning device mountable to a fishing line" was invented by Elizabeth Ann Snyder (Apopka, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fish stunning device includes a submersible main body with a watertight interior that houses an electronic suite. The main body is securable onto a fishing line and includes internal weights for traveling underwater along the length of the line. A plurality of resilient malleable protrusions each having an electrode extend outward from the main body. Each of the electrodes is connected to the electronic suite and function to impart an electrical shock onto a fish that is enga...