The article states:
"Everyone should be able to kayak, fish, boat or swim on Tennessee waterways without fear that another recreational user has set a potentially lethal booby trap."
So they are worried about getting caught in a trotline after they have loaded their gear up in a automotive vehicle where the annual death toll nationwide is right at 40,000 deaths, and driven to their waterway of choice.
Yea...OK.
I only know of one death resulting from a trotline and that was 30 or more years ago. A local man was running a trotline on his private 5 acre lake on a very windy day, apparently ran a hook through his hand and wound up going over and drowned.
How many people do you read about everyday that die in auto accidents?
Potentially lethal? That is life itself...