Smashing Stuff to Kill Other Stuff

 We had a little trouble shooting any dinner so one of the adult dive instructors decided to take a friend and I on a guided tour to show us exactly how it was done. He was a crazy dude in his early forties and within a few seconds of getting down to depth we knew we were in for a different experience than the one we had been taught to have. Good ethical diving means that you should never deliberately or unnecessarily disturb the environment. That means you should never touch the bottom or disturb the wildlife that you are not going to shoot and eat. This guy was like the hunters on Bambi he went strait to a rock and knelt down on it and started smashing everything in site to chum the waters. He was stabbing mussels and crushing urchins and basically laying waste to the seascape and the predatory fish on our menu took notice. 
Under the ocean no tree-hugging hippie can hear you scream.

First though a swarm of Garibaldi, the protected California state fish closed in and even though we had been warned, warned, and re-warned about killing or hurting those fish he started shooting them as quickly as he could reload and to hide the evidence of his crimes he was stuffing them under a rock so they would stay hidden until the dive boat left. After the locals were decimated we had plenty of sport fist to shoot at our leisure. I was still really nervous that we would be implicated in the massacre of protected species as we came up with more fish in one dive than the rest of the boat had managed in the first day and a half. We were never found out and I incorporated a light version of the scorched earth methods we had learned.