Why do people think fishing is a crewel sport?

Question

when there wouldent be anywere for them if it wasent for fishermen

Answer 1

hunting is more cruel then fishing... I don't think fishing is cruel.  you don't hang fish on your walls or exactly do it for fun... exactly.  Hunting is just disgusting.. fish, not so much

Answer 2

is it not  cruel to stick a hook in a fishes mouth and pull pull pull

Answer 3

Fishing is cruel because fish are living creatures with brains and a nervous system.That means they can feel fear and pain.You can pretty much guarantee they feel both when a hook gets caught in their mouth and they are dragged from the water and then either beaten to death or shown off to the fisherman's friends for several minutes all the while suffocating before being thrown back.

  Fish existed long before people did-they certainly don't need people to live.

Answer 4

Maybe not cruel.  Barbaric maybe.  Check the definition.

Answer 5

imagine having a meat hook pulled through your cheek,,,,,,,,sounds fairly cruel to me!

Answer 6

I'm not sure what you mean in the last part of the question - aquatic life was happpily living in seas, rivers, lakes etc. long before we came along and started harpooning them.

On the cruelty front, fishing generally involves the fish being dragged out of the water via the medium of a hook through it's mouth, once out of the water the fish then suffocates whilst being either dangled ten feet in the air, or plonked on a canal bank among the used needles and crisp packets.  

I appreciate that in some instances, the fish are kept alive in a bucket (what must appear to be a prison in which they are effectively blind) and handled by a human (thus sustaing burns due to the heat transfer and fish being cold blooded) to be weighed and inspected (a bit like an alien abduction) before being unceremoniously lobbed back with it's mouth wound untended.

You may consider them to be "just fish", but they are sentient beings with a central and peripheral nervous system - therefore capable of feeling pain, fear and disorientation.

Well, you did ask!

Answer 7

Many fishers are conservationist by nature because many take care of their fish well be being gentle with the fish and by raising awareness of environmental issues in the area they fish.  Some fishers are crewel but so are some farmers and some pet owners.  I catch and release all the fish i catch because i don't need to eat the fish to live but unless the only thing you eat are veggies you cant call fishers crewel because you are inherently crewel by encouraging the harvest of fish in much worse ways than hooks. (trawling).

Many of the people in this forum put human emotions into animals heads.  I'm not saying they don't feel pain or become frightened but these are natural responses and i don't think that fish are emotionally scarred if they are stuck in a bucket before they are released because I'm not sure if you realized but fish don't know what prisons are and they don't feel compassion for other fish but they do have pain.  As long as fishers are respectful to the fish and make sure their death is fast and with minimal struggle or are released unharmed they will be OK.

Answer 8

Fish are wild creatures and do not require fishermen to exist (except in stocked ponds).

Many feel it is cruel because it often involves the suffocation and death of the fish, or damage from the hook. There is a debate as to whether fish can feel pain, but some evidence suggest they do. Anglers are also responsible for the damage done to many other animals through leaving lines and hooks about, killing swans and ducks.

Answer 9

they have pain as all animals do!!!

Answer 10

*cruel

Answer 11

Cruel

wouldn't

anywhere

wasn't

Hang on, it still makes no sense.

Oh I see, that fact that we are responsible for thier existence doen't mean we have the right to abuse them, parents are responsible for the existence opf thier children, right?

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Answer 12

Would you like a hook in your mouth?