As the system is right now, it's stressing people to fish, fish, fish with as few break inbetween casts as possible. Even going as far as what as deciding if you should stand or sit on animation time, same with release. As soon as you can, you run to the side of the ship and start fishing, no taking in the enviroment at all except the first load-in.

The "problem" as I see it is the mount and titles being tied to a single trip. If these instead were tied to a total point or total catch it would do a lot to reduced forced stress on players. A 5k point trip won't feel wasted as it contributes to your overall progress for the mount, not the win/lose we have right now.

Also really wonder how future random events would be, if they're preventing people from fishing for some time it will be something people would avoid unless the time lost is off-set by a big point bonus. The same problem as people leaving if the first place doesn't spawn a rainbow right now.