Fishing is cruel ??

[SyKeD]

there is nothing better than taking your family/friends who ever:lol: out on a sunday arvo and going fishing off the wharf or out in the river or ocean

I cant find anything wrong with fishing so there for my answer is There is nothing wrong with fishing...:lol:

 

[Bryony]

Hmmm well....
I am against commercial fishing trawlers but am for individual fishing and social fishing

 

[JasonL]

All I want to know is how to quickly dispatch a abalone??? and how come no one has mentioned the cruelty of the bait??? poor little sand worm wriggling it's life away on a No.6 long shank..... Oh well, I have to go and gas some crickets before I go feed my beardies

 

[gelusmuse]

I love fishing and eating fish.

 

[thepythonpit]

i think trawlers should be band, thay just rape the sea.
i grow my own silver perch and yabbies and trout in my backyard in a 1000lt water tank 100 x 500gram fish a year plus all the veg i can eat . its called aquaponics . theres no need (only greed) to rape the sea .
i dont think we could ever stop people from fishing , it would be impossable to police..

 

[waruikazi]

Farmed fish just don't taste the same.

 

[mattmc]

ive got no problem with fishing...i never catch anything anyway....atleast i can sit back and relax....and while the baits out there waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting...i can go explore stuff and things....live bait works best

 

[thepythonpit]

Farmed fish just don't taste the same.

i beg to differ, my fish taste like fish , i dont like farmed prawns, but as technoalgy grows thay do get better and there will be a time when you wont be able to tell the differnce.

 

[mattmc]

i beg to differ, my fish taste like fish , i dont like farmed prawns, but as technoalgy grows thay do get better and there will be a time when you wont be able to tell the differnce.

That time is not now though, is it?

Farm fish is very distinguishable compared to your own fresh fish. Cant go past fresh fish

 

[alex_c]

put it this way if we let group's like Peta gain any ground or have their way it is only a matter of time before we are banned from keeping pet's.the people in charge of these group's are insanely delusional for example the head of Peta sent a letter to yasser arafat complaining about a donkey being killed in a suicide bombing.


and yes i do fish i have pretty much all my life

 

[thepythonpit]

That time is not now though, is it?

Farm fish is very distinguishable compared to your own fresh fish. Cant go past fresh fish

ive had prawns straight out of the trawlers kettle and nothing has ever come close to it , and i worked many years in 5 star resturants serving the best food people can buy and stiil havent had prawns better than when i work on trawlers, so it will be a long time before farmed prawns ever are compareable to fresh caught ..

im interested to know how distinguishable you think farmed FISH are to fresh , to date i can only tell the differnce by there shape..

 

[caustichumor]

The only problem with some farmed fish is the cheap grain based feed they get fed, farmed fish fed a diet of "fish" based feed taste as good as sea caught...

 

[thepythonpit]

yeah your right , nearly all framed fish that australia imports (mostly asian countrys) i would never eat even thought thay are purged before filleted and packed. the fish rasied here in australia is second to non, mostly because we have strict rules and regulations on housing and feeding farmed fish..

 

[thepythonpit]

check this site out
backyardaquaponics.com
thay have a forum full

 

[ytamarin]

...i find myself having more trouble justifying the pain im causing the fish just for the selfish pleasure of having a look at them.

That's the part I have an issue with. People love to observe other creatures (eg bird-watching, herping, fishing) but most of the time there is no harm caused to the animal. When fishing, there is. Scuba diving seems to me like a better way to look at sea life. If it is more about getting out there with friends and family and doing something together, then why not get out on the boat, minus the fishing?
I've never been fishing and I don't understand the culture of it, so to me sport fishing would be like bird-watching with hooks to snatch them off the branch because they are too far away, then letting them fly off again.
If our waters were clear and we could use binoculars to observe the fish, would people be happy to do that instead? (It's a genuine question, I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind fishing for sport.)

 

[JasonL]

That's the part I have an issue with. People love to observe other creatures (eg bird-watching, herping, fishing) but most of the time there is no harm caused to the animal. When fishing, there is. Scuba diving seems to me like a better way to look at sea life. If it is more about getting out there with friends and family and doing something together, then why not get out on the boat, minus the fishing?
I've never been fishing and I don't understand the culture of it, so to me sport fishing would be like bird-watching with hooks to snatch them off the branch because they are too far away, then letting them fly off again.
If our waters were clear and we could use binoculars to observe the fish, would people be happy to do that instead? (It's a genuine question, I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind fishing for sport.)

Thats a fair enough question, but if you don't understand it, you probably never will. I guess it come from deep in our instincts to catch something....like hunters and gatherers, a test of skills against the elements and prey.... to be able to catch something with the brain the size of a pea and still fail ....

 

[aliveandkicking]

Fishing is only cruel if your intentions are cruel. I'm sure some sick fools would get some satisfaction in torturing fish after catching them but the vast majority of us either catch and release or dispatch of the fish quickly and cleanly.

 

[thepythonpit]

plus theres the buzz you get when your on ,its good enough to get you out of bed and on the rocks before sunup, even in winter.
but like you said you dont know and never will..

 

[shane14]

Fishing used to be my most favourite thing un-till i found Music lol that was replaced by reptiles

 

[MatE]

When will it stop?Why do fish have any more rights then a cricket or even a ant?Man have been fishing for 1000"s of years.Whole cultures have survived doing it.Then some people come in and say you cant go fishing i think not.