Imagine reaching for a mango on a tree and having your hand impaled then jerked off the ground with a hook through your flesh. Your whole weight hangs on your hand and you are yanked into an atmosphere where you cannot breathe and slowly suffocate. This is what happens to a fish during fishing.
People would be horrified if a dog or cat had a hook stuck in his mouth and was dragged across the road to be drowned. However this is exactly what is done to fish without any thought.

There is no rational and moral thinking. Only fixated and deficient concept. Fish are not less capable of suffering than a dog, a cat or a human. Humans, however, prefer to believe, against all biological and anatomical facts that fish can't feel pain. What a convenient excuse for humans to treat fish as commodities. As a mater of fact they don’t really need excuses.
They don’t argue that chickens, cows, sheep and pigs feel pain, but it doesn’t bother them while they kick them, burn them, stab them, debeak them, drown them, step on them, imprison them, dry them, cut them, detoe them, dehorn them, beat them, starve them, ride them, punch them, sear them… and finally murder them. There is no hope.

It seems that humans would do every possible mistake and would take any immoral decision. As regard to fish, they torture them for fun. Prison them for ornament. Building walkways, hotels, restaurants, private beaches and marinas while destroying natural coastline and restricting their habitats. They invade to their homes with ships, which are distressing noise pollution, chemical pollution, oil pollution and space pollution. Humans also disregard their fellow race needs and rights including of course their own, by turning every river, lake and ocean in to a waste dump.
The home of trillions of creatures has become the world's dumping grounds. When consuming fish, humans actually eat from their excretion. The poor fish picking up all kinds of pollutions into their bodies. The humans who eat fish don’t pay the price, laboratory animals do! In order to cure humans diseases who as always, caused by their own fault and irresponsibility, more animals are being tortured.

It’s hard for fish to arouse our compassion. They can’t show their agony by screaming. They don’t have the sad eyes of a seal pup or dog, and they aren’t cute and furry. They live in an alien environment and people have very little contact with them compared with birds or mammals. Fish can’t express their feelings through vocalization or behaviour that is easily recognizable as showing pain or fear to humans. However, there is no doubt that fish can suffer.

Common sense, as well as scientific evidence, tells us that fish experience pain. In fact, all vertebrates (animals with backbones), whether they are cold or warm blooded, two or four footed, feathered or with scales, f eel pain and suffer from stress.

Increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, adrenaline rush, writhing, gasping – fish display similar signs to humans when under stress and faced with dangerous situations. Fish feel pain out of biological necessity, just as all mammals do. They possess a brain, central nervous system and pain receptors all over their bodies. Without the ability to feel pain they would not survive. They also produce enkephalins and endorphins, chemicals known to counter pain in humans. Anatomically, physiologically and biologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals.

Surely it is only because fish do not yelp or whimper that otherwise decent people can think it is a pleasant way of spending an afternoon, to sit by the water dangling a hook while previously caught fish die slowly beside them."- (Peter Singer, Animal Liberation) This time I disagree with him. All the other imprisoned, tortured and murdered animals can yelp and whimper but still humans don’t seem to care.

Fish have particularly sensitive mouths, which are important not only for feeding, but also for building nests and for hiding their offspring from dangers. Fishing hooks tear apart their fragile mouths. Swallowed hooks damage internal organs. It can also caught in their gills or eyes. In deep-sea fishing, the use of sharp metal hooks called “gaffs” is quite common. Gaffs are impaled into the body of a fully-conscious fish to make it easier to load the fish onto the boat. Hooks are regularly swallowed by fish and their removal often damage internal organs and lead to death. The huge hooks used in shark fishing often cause the animal to vomit up her/his entire stomach in a desperate attempt to get rid of the painful sharp metal.

Even simply removing a fish from water is harmful. The stress caused by pressure and temperature changes from pulling a fish up from deep water can be fatal. When hauled up from the deep, fish undergo excruciating decompression. Frequently, the intense internal pressure ruptures the swimbladder, pops out the eyes and pushes the oesophagus and stomach out through the mouth. The fish are not killed instantly upon leaving the water, but exposed to an environment they are not design to cope with. Primarily, they can't breath. Other factors include stress imposed due to the sudden change in temperature, noise, vibration, oxygen concentration, light intensity and damage to a protective mucous layer.
Once out of the water, fish suffocate rather like we do underwater. In their death throes fish writhe, gasping and flapping their gills as they desperately try to get oxygen. Anyone who has ever been unable to breathe, even for a short time, won't need convincing that this is a terrifying experience.

Angling is a form of fishing, where the fish is hooked, "played" to exhaustion, and finally thrown back. It is also known as "catch and release". Therefore, although anglers release the caught fish back to water, just as with hunting and shooting, angling revolves around using and causing suffering to a living creature to provide amusement for humans.
Fish may be put into keepnets after they have been caught. These nets are designed to contain fish underwater, before being released .However, many fish will receive injuries from the net mesh or from being squashed together with other fish, having their mucous layer damaged,catch diseases from any other

sick fish in the keepnet and many will die due to depletion of oxygen over a period in these devices. Keepnets are most popular at fishing matches, enabling each angler to weigh his complete catch at the end of this insane match. Many anglers use keepnets simply as a personal ego boost.
Fish scales are not watertight, so fish have a layer of protective mucus, which also keeps out infection. Handling by humans that damaging this mucus, leaving the fish vulnerable to diseases when returned to the water. Damaging the fish's slime coat has been linked to third degree burns in humans. Traumatized and injured fish returned to the water can either die from their injuries, or from the stress of being caught. Further, fish take time to recover from being caught and during that time are extremely vulnerable to attack and damage from the physical environment

It is easy to see that angling causes suffer to fish regardless of whether or not the fish is returned the water.
Some die because their hearts give out under stress, some because the sort of damage done by the hooks would not allow them to live. Others are killed by sharks while being caught. A research found that more than half of the thrown back fish, died within a week.

Some fishermen and anglers use live bait for larger predatory fish. Live bait includes any living animal or parts of dead animals, such as heads, eyes, or eggs that are fastened to a hook to induce a fish to bite. Animals commonly used as live bait include frogs, minnows and other small fish, slugs and insects. Frogs are hooked through the leg or back and drowned. Minnows are pierced with one or two hooks through the eye sockets, tail, lips, or back, and are then cast into the water where they are eaten, or die of their injuries.
Often, a live small fish is threaded up as bait for larger fish. Here is one description of how to do it, taken from a fishing magazine: “The needle is passed through the front of the socket of both eyes. The material is then pulled through so that the hook sits on the head of the baitfish”. Remember that the baitfish is alive.
The terrified fish is then cast out in to the water where she/he can only struggle in agony on the hooks, until he/she is eaten by another fish (which is then reeled in by the angler) or he/she dies of its injuries. Because many anglers don't want to waste time catching bait before starting fishing, fish are commonly kept at home in small tanks. Some anglers keep fish confined in these tanks for months is also rife in such unnatural conditions, with white spot, fungus and bacterial infections common. This also puts at risk the fish in open waters when the baits are used. throughout the season, so they always have a supply of bait.
Needless to say, many of these fish die due to inadequate aeration, temperature fluctuations, dirty water and stress and diseases.

Commercial fishing

The boats that are emptying the world's seas are vast floating factory units. Equipped with radar and satellite technology to track their helpless prey. There is No place to hide. No chance to escape. The most common modern commercial fishing techniques are:

Trawling
Trawling is one of the most common methods of commercial fishing in the world. A trawl is a big, heavy, open-mouthed net that is pulled along the sea bed by heavy boats. Hundreds of different life forms are killed as it grinds over the sandy bottom of the ocean. Trawling literally clear-cut the ocean floor, grinding up coral reefs and other habitats. As the fish in the nets are dragged up from the ocean depths the change in pressure causes their eyes to balloon and their swim bladders to burst. Many drown or crushed to death under the weight of all the other fish and creatures including starfish, crabs and shellfish. The unwanted catch is simply thrown back to the sea where they subsequently die.

Drift Netting
This is one of the most destructive methods of fishing. It involves the use of a very strong but very fine net made of nylon, which is almost invisible in the water. It forms a wall beneath the waters surface and catches all the fish, dolphins, small whales, seals and sharks that swim into it. This method is used to catch tuna fish and all other creatures are therefore discarded. Over a million dolphins die from being caught in these nets each year. Drift nets can stretch for more than 30 kilometers and cause a great deal of destruction. They sometimes break free during storms and drift around killing sea animals. The weight of the dead bodies drags it to the bottom of the ocean where it lies until the bodies rot. They then float back to the surface and continues to capture more animals.

Long Line Fishing
Thousands of baited hooks are attached to lines stretching several kilometers behind a boat. This method of fishing can be used over rocky areas, which would tear nets. Unfortunately, many sea birds are also killed in this process as they attempt to feed on the caught fish and get themselves hooked. Sea birds often scavenge for food behind longling boats and try to eat the bait from the hooks, as they are set behind the boat. Some birds swallow the hooks and are dragged underwater. More than 300,000 seabirds are killed in this way each year. About 10% of the world's wandering albatross population is killed each year by longlines.

Purse Seine Nets
Purse seine nets form a circle around shoals of fish and scoop them all out of the water. The size of the mesh sometimes allows smaller fish to escape. As well as fish, this method also catches dolphins and other sea mammals.

Finning
Finning is a relatively new method of fishing which involves catching sharks and slicing off their fins. This is to supply the Chinese restaurant market for shark fin soup. The sharks, still alive, are thrown back to the water where they then die of shock and drowning. Over 100 million sharks are killed this way each year.

Fishermen are moving from stock to stock systematically destroying it and moving on to the next one.

Due to overfishing and the resulting collapse fisheries, farming of fish has been promoted by the industry as the answer to fish production. Fish farming involves the growing of fish, mainly trout and salmon, in cages or pools for human consumption. This is just like any other type of factory farming. The rearing of farmed fish is as intensive as any veal crate or battery cage. Fish are crammed together in small cages, tanks or earth ponds. This cause severe stresses to the fish.

In much the some way that chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep have become victims of the human race to produce more animals flesh at cheaper prices, so too have salmon and trout. Salmon start life from parents who are killed and stripped of their eggs. The Salmon parr (young salmon) are grown in freshwater hatcheries for 12-18 months, after which they are transferred to loch or estuary cages. The sudden transfer to seawater is such a trauma that large numbers die, sometimes as many as 50 per cent and rarely less than 15 per cent.

Wild salmon migrate over hundreds of miles from the rivers where they are spawned to the open sea. They will even leap waterfalls to travel upstream to spawn. Therefore, to keep this species in small static cages cause severe stress. The frustration of the instinctual migratory behaviour is shown by the fish's continual agitation and leaping and swimming in incessant circles round and round the cage. The high stocking density of 15kg fish/cubic meter is equivalent to keeping a 2 ft salmon in a bath.

The eyes of fish are particularly sensitive to stress - severe cataracts have been found in farmed salmon, often so bad they cause eyes to bleed and the fish to go blind.

Diseases are a problem in fish farms. Overcrowding leads to infections of the pancreas, ulceration of the flesh, kidney disease and sea lice infestation which multiply and graze on the fish's flesh, literally eating them alive from the outside in. When antibiotics are used in large amounts to address these, bacteria become resistant to drugs, producing yet more diseases.

'Stripping' accurately describes a brutal process whereby eggs are taken from female fish and sperm is taken from males. The female's front of the abdominal cavity is massaged backwards by hand. Alternatively, compressed air may be placed in the abdominal cavity with a needle. Occasionally the ovaries may be removed surgically. Most females are killed after stripping. Males Sperm or 'milt' is taken from male fish in a similar way, or a syringe or pipette may be used to take sperm directly. They are also anaesthetized to calm them. Milt is taken at three-day periods and the males are normally killed at the end of this horrific procedure.

Fish are yet another animal to be messed around with by genetic engineering. Growth hormones have been transferred to fish to speed up growth rates. male hormones have been administered to ensure that fish are the same sex; other fish have three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two so that they are sterile; salmon have been 'given' an anti-freeze protein gene so they can survive in colder water; and genetically engineered vaccines have been produced to control disease problems.

Although many fish are killed and refrigerated or frozen before shipping, there are also increasing numbers of fish, which are transported live to processing plants. Like humans, fish suffer from motion sickness. Before they travel, they are starved for 24 hours. This is to prevent vomiting.
Before killing, the fish can be starved up to 3 weeks to remove undesirable oil deposits as commercial fish feed is very high in oil and it will be less messy to take out the insides of a fish.

The murder usually carried out with a hit on the head. The fish may be injured, possibly losing an eye, they may be placed in a tank with carbon dioxide gas bubbled through which causes the thrash around. They stop moving after 30 seconds, but do not lose consciousness for 5-10 minutes. They bleed to death, and in the case of salmon, they may be immobile but still conscious as they bleed.
Trout are often packed in ice, slowly freezing to death, up to half an hour of dying in agony. In some markets, fish steaks are cut off starting at the tail end - the fish continues to swim around the bowl between customers. Fish such as plaice will desperately cling to life for hours out of water and may well be filleted alive.

Fishing implications are so enormous that the numbers of animals affected from fishing cant be figured. The amounts are calculated by kg and not by number of creatures. At least a fifth of the marine catch is thrown back into the water because it is too small or the wrong species. We are all familiar with the tragedy of dolphins killed in nets set for Tuna. Less well known is the number of unwanted fish caught while harvesting shrimp; for every pound of shrimp, five to ten pounds of non-shrimp are killed.

We wanted to write down the enormous amounts of murdered fish per year, but the relation towards them is so disgraceful, so speciesist that they are not even counted in fish numbers but in kilograms and tons.

It is estimated that worldwide, 155,000 sea turtles drown in shrimp nets each year. An estimated 100,000 seals, whales, and porpoises and a million birds every year become entangled in nets and drown. Because factory-fishing nets are so vast, huge numbers of fish and other sea animals are caught "by mistake".

The fish industry call it PREDATORS CONTROL but the Mentality is actually "Lets Kill Anything That Moves"

More than a thousand whales are brutally murdered each year by Norway and Japan for the meat industry. The method for killing whales entails chasing the animals by boat and firing a grenade-tipped harpoon that explodes inside their bodies.
Because the harpoon gunners are on a moving boat, aiming at a moving animal, they cannot guarantee their target. Sometimes the harpoon hits the whale's head and death is quite rapid. However, most of the time it hits the body - causing major injury - and a second killing method is required, usually a rifle or another harpoon. Some whales survive for more than an hour after first being harpooned.

Tens of thousands of farmed fish escape through bad management or storm damage. They then breed with wild fish, creating a population of cross-breeds. The cross-breeds are less able to survive in the wild because farmed fish are bred to exhibit more placid behaviour, later sexual development and fast growth. These characteristics make the fish less suited to living in the wild. When farmed fish interbreed with wild stocks, the offsprings are less genetically fit for survival. The farmed fish may also destroy indigenous stocks by causing short-term competition for food. Parasitic infections have decimated native fish populations. The caged fish are highly prone to disease due to their unnaturally close proximity.

The nylon line that anglers use frequently breaks when hooks become snagged on underwater obstructions or bankside vegetation, or is discarded when it gets tangled during casting. It biodegrades very slowly and causes death and injury to millions of animals. Waterfowl such as swans and ducks are especially vulnerable. They pick up hooks, line and weights while feeding, and slowly starve to death. Their feet can also get caught in tangled line, and limbs and wings can be severed. Swans are still dying of lead poisoning. Pelicans, egrets, herons, osprey, turtles, and manatees have all been found with injuries from fishing tackle. Entanglement can lead to starvation, or, if the line has cut off blood circulation in a foot or wing, infection and eventually death.

The north sea, where 40% of the fish are being caught, has become so polluted that some fishermen now wear protective face masks to prevent the rashes and other skin disorders that contact with the water can cause. The fish cannot wear protective facemasks. Even if they could have, would you agree wearing a protective facemasks all the time?!

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