Opening day at “the pond that shall not be named” was its usual productive self. Many fine 2-year-old hatchery brook trout came to hand. Any fly in white was attacked by the freshly stocked fish.
There were about seven boats, two float tubers and several wading anglers when leaving the pond to open the shop. Just a good all-around opening morning of fishing and camaraderie.
There are so many ways to enjoy nature. Torturing animals should not be one of them. That's what catching a fish is: torture for them. Science has shown that fishes can suffer terror and pain. They are sentient beings as deserving of respect, consideration and compassion as any other sentient beings. Just because a fish is released doesn't mean they survive the injury and trauma of having been impaled, fought, suffocated and manhandled. Many do not, and they all suffer immensely from it. Respect animals, don't cause them gratuitous harm.
My father taught me to fish. Even as a child, something didn't sit right in my gut, as my instincts told me that for the fish, it was NO fun, to be hauled out of the water in which they breath, to dangle from sharp hook that has pierced their mouth, to be dragged in terror out of their home! I remember asking daddy, " Doesn't this hurt them" to which he replied, "fish don't feel pain" which of course, was incorrect. He just didn't know but we sure do now. We also know that because humans take fish, our oceans are being depleted and that larger marine mammals who NEED fish for survival, are starving, washing up dead on shores with bellies full of plastics, another symptom of our thoughtless supremacy. The best way to judge if a practice is right or wrong, the lines of which have been blurred, even removed, is to ask yourselves if you'd want it done to you, your loved ones, or your body! www.fishfeel.org Thise responsible for the health and safety of children should really start making the connection many of us have, and that is that the cruelty and violence we inflict upon other beings for no necessity spills over into how humans prey upon other humans. Imagine a world where all beings are safe. Until then, we are our own worst enemy and at war with nature.
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There are so many ways to enjoy nature. Torturing animals should not be one of them. That's what catching a fish is: torture for them. Science has shown that fishes can suffer terror and pain. They are sentient beings as deserving of respect, consideration and compassion as any other sentient beings. Just because a fish is released doesn't mean they survive the injury and trauma of having been impaled, fought, suffocated and manhandled. Many do not, and they all suffer immensely from it. Respect animals, don't cause them gratuitous harm.
My father taught me to fish. Even as a child, something didn't sit right in my gut, as my instincts told me that for the fish, it was NO fun, to be hauled out of the water in which they breath, to dangle from sharp hook that has pierced their mouth, to be dragged in terror out of their home! I remember asking daddy, " Doesn't this hurt them" to which he replied, "fish don't feel pain" which of course, was incorrect. He just didn't know but we sure do now. We also know that because humans take fish, our oceans are being depleted and that larger marine mammals who NEED fish for survival, are starving, washing up dead on shores with bellies full of plastics, another symptom of our thoughtless supremacy. The best way to judge if a practice is right or wrong, the lines of which have been blurred, even removed, is to ask yourselves if you'd want it done to you, your loved ones, or your body! www.fishfeel.org Thise responsible for the health and safety of children should really start making the connection many of us have, and that is that the cruelty and violence we inflict upon other beings for no necessity spills over into how humans prey upon other humans. Imagine a world where all beings are safe. Until then, we are our own worst enemy and at war with nature.
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