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Danny Lancaster
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Paul,
In a way, I can see were you're coming from, but I put this to you. You say "what better ammunition could they want?" How about the sheer fact that we as anglers strike a sharp piece of steel into their mouths everytime we go out fishing? When you go off on one, especially on a public forum such as this, you HAVE to be careful and think about what your typing. You refer to those "unfortunate traumatised Carp" yet we as anglers are constantly having to defend the science that fish dont feel pain, emotion or similar. Lets not get confused about this, it would be hypocritical in my opinion to think that we are a sport of Dr Doolittle's. Conservationists, the "eyes and ears" of the nations Watercourses, yes. But at the end of the day it is we who stick hooks into fishes mouths and we cannot forget that.
Like I said I can agree with your points about overstocking and to an extent, the fact a lot of people only fish commercials competitively, but please, the best ammunition you can give to the anti's is to start going down the "poor unfortunate fish" route.
In a way, I can see were you're coming from, but I put this to you. You say "what better ammunition could they want?" How about the sheer fact that we as anglers strike a sharp piece of steel into their mouths everytime we go out fishing? When you go off on one, especially on a public forum such as this, you HAVE to be careful and think about what your typing. You refer to those "unfortunate traumatised Carp" yet we as anglers are constantly having to defend the science that fish dont feel pain, emotion or similar. Lets not get confused about this, it would be hypocritical in my opinion to think that we are a sport of Dr Doolittle's. Conservationists, the "eyes and ears" of the nations Watercourses, yes. But at the end of the day it is we who stick hooks into fishes mouths and we cannot forget that.
Like I said I can agree with your points about overstocking and to an extent, the fact a lot of people only fish commercials competitively, but please, the best ammunition you can give to the anti's is to start going down the "poor unfortunate fish" route.