Some of My Best Friends Battle Pets Are Murlocs

Many murlocs were slapped to bring us this information

From the spreadsheet I made, it looks like a Sleeping Murloc that is slapped on top of the pillar at the Dalaran Fountain (so that the fish all go into your bag) has yielded an average of 18.5 AP fish, which is 925 AP. To get the artifact trait I am working on right now (#20) I need 30,600 AP. That means I will need to slap roughly 33 murlocs. What? No, I don't slap them roughly, I very gently pat them awake! Please don't bring D.E.H.T.A. into this!  I would never harm an animal to rouse it..

Oh, what? Hahahaha, that picture is actually a really funny story! That druid needed to be clubbed to save his life! It was a mercy clubbing!

Aaand...I just realized it's kind of pointless to make excuses for this considering my fishing artifact pole seems to be a skeletal murloc.
A quest giver told me to do it. Move along.