The A-man

Hope someone with a bit more biological knowledge than I can answer this question: Can Bass survive being held out of the water, stuffed into plastic bags for a tournament style weigh-in? My local fishery is nearly a 2,000 acre reservoir with lots of healthy bass, bream, and crappie. The majority of the cover is remaining tree tops or old brush that was left once the area was flooded. Went fishing for the first time this spring today on this lake and noticed a sizable crowd out on the water around me. After returning to the boat ramp, I came upon what was the weigh-in for a local redneck tournament with plenty of men holding tournament style bags of very healthy bass, stuffed like sardines with little water in those bags. I’m an avid/lifelong outdoorsmen and will fully support all outdoor sports, but I felt sick seeing this many trophy fish stacked in bags for a lengthy weigh-in that probably took 20 minutes from boat-to scale-to back in the water (should also mention this lake is an electric motor lake only, hardly any of the boats had live wells being that most of them were 500 dollar Jon boats). So does anyone have actual knowledge that Bass can handle the stress of being thrown in a plastic bag for a lengthy weigh in? Or do I need to find a lease somewhere and personally manage a few farm ponds...?