Barotrauma - needle tool for relief?

Curious how effective this technique is for relieving barotrauma in fish -- guy catches a fish that he wants to release and he jams a special needle tool into the side/belly of the fish and the expanded gas inside the fish comes out and he then releases the fish on the surface (instead of using a descender) to assumably resume its fishy life down deep.

Wonder if the fish actually survives this?

Cued it at the 7:45 timestamp where the needle action starts:

https://youtu.be/5XMF_jEHt-E?si=ErmT4dt-504vpgFQ&t=465

Common sense says this is a death sentence.

Yup

Not recommended

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=36345&inline

Not recommended

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=36345&inline

Good find, thanks!