Are fish tortured in factories?

Question

or do they just kill them straight up no harm. can someone give me a website or any information on how they kill the fish.

Answer 1

Fish farming, or “aquaculture,” has become a billion-dollar industry, and more than 30 percent of all the sea animals consumed each year are now raised on these “farms.” The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the aquaculture industry is growing three times faster than land-based animal agriculture, and fish farms will surely become even more prevalent as our natural fisheries become exhausted.

Aquafarms can be based on land or in the ocean. Land-based farms raise thousands of fish in ponds, pools, or concrete tanks. Ocean-based aquafarms are situated close to shorelines, and fish in these farms are packed into net or mesh cages. All fish farms are rife with pollution, disease, and suffering, regardless of their location.

Aquafarms squander resources—it can take 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce just 1 pound of farmed fish—and pollute the environment with tons of fish f***s, antibiotic-laden fish feed, and diseased fish carcasses.

Fish on aquafarms spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food. In short, fish farms bring suffering and ecological devastation everywhere they go.

Many land-based aquafarms are indoors, so farmers even control the amount of light that fish get.  These farmed fish will spend their entire lives crammed together, constantly bumping against each other and the sides of their grossly overcrowded cage.

Answer 2

It's not as bad as what they do to cows/pigs/chickens, but there actually are underwater fish farms, and fish do feel pain. Here's a website you might want to check out:

http://fishinghurts.com/

Answer 3

They usually bop them really hard on the head similar to what they do to livestock, who like fish, don't see it coming.

There is no benefit to torturing animals prior to slaughter. Anyone who 'gets off' on harming them is sick and shouldn't be part of the industry.

A scared, stressed out animal makes a producer less money than a healthy animal who is unaware of their purpose - to become chops or steaks on someones table.

Answer 4

Most fish suffocate to death as they are removed from their natural environement, water.

Or their heads are smashed or they are gutted mostly while still alive.. basically how they are eaten in the wild by other marine/aquatic creatures

"kill them straight up no harm" is an oxymoron

Answer 5

first of all why are you worrying about fish. second of all how would you torture a fish what do you think they skin it alive? thats rediculous

Answer 6

If your one of those that buy fish - you should have noticed by now that the package will tell you if the fish is farm raised or 'wild'.

Farmed fish generally get a lower price than fish caught in the wild in the market place.

As to how they are 'farmed' - kept in tanks.  Different tanks have different sizes.  When they get to a certain size - they are killed - depending upon the market that they are going to - that can mean that they have their heads cut off and gutted.  Some markets like the heads left on as such is considered to be a delicacy in some cultures (fish head soup comes to mind).  At the Asian market down the road, you can pick the live fish from the tank and they kill it and prepare it as you wait.

Websites abound - just type in "fish farming" in a search engine and you will get lots of hits to take you to whatever it is that your looking for.

Answer 7

goveg.com. go to the meet your meat list and click on fish