davestocker
Well-known member
Nottingham Evening Post 4.8.05
THIS HOBBY CAUSES PAIN, SUFFERING AND DAMAGE
12:00 - 04 August 2005
I was very concerned to see that the Environment Agency is encouraging angling as a pastime.
Surely people can think of more productive things to do with their spare time than to cause physical harm and suffering to fish and destroy our riversides in the process? Many people think that fish don't feel pain, but this is untrue.
Fish are vertebrates, with a brain, a central nervous system and pain receptors all over their bodies, including the lips.
As with mammals, it is a biological necessity to feel pain. Scientific research from around the world substantiates this, as reported by the Government's very own official advisory body on farmed animal welfare.
Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed. Even if the fish are returned handling by the anglers removes the invisible outer mucus layer, which provides waterproofing leaving the fish open to infection.
I am surprised that this is something the Environment Agency condones when hooks and nylon line is regularly lost or discarded, with deadly consequences for wildlife. Litter is also left behind, including jagged bait cans.
With the school holidays upon us I urge your readers to encourage their children to take up a cruelty-free activity for the summer.
KELLY SLADE Campaigns Officer, Animal Aid Bradford Street Tonbridge, Kent
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/d...yContent&sourceNode=134095&contentPK=12946747
also in the Yorkshire Post 4.8.05
and the Bath Chronicle 4.8.05
more to come, I suspect
THIS HOBBY CAUSES PAIN, SUFFERING AND DAMAGE
12:00 - 04 August 2005
I was very concerned to see that the Environment Agency is encouraging angling as a pastime.
Surely people can think of more productive things to do with their spare time than to cause physical harm and suffering to fish and destroy our riversides in the process? Many people think that fish don't feel pain, but this is untrue.
Fish are vertebrates, with a brain, a central nervous system and pain receptors all over their bodies, including the lips.
As with mammals, it is a biological necessity to feel pain. Scientific research from around the world substantiates this, as reported by the Government's very own official advisory body on farmed animal welfare.
Fish start to suffocate out of water and their gills may collapse and bleed. Even if the fish are returned handling by the anglers removes the invisible outer mucus layer, which provides waterproofing leaving the fish open to infection.
I am surprised that this is something the Environment Agency condones when hooks and nylon line is regularly lost or discarded, with deadly consequences for wildlife. Litter is also left behind, including jagged bait cans.
With the school holidays upon us I urge your readers to encourage their children to take up a cruelty-free activity for the summer.
KELLY SLADE Campaigns Officer, Animal Aid Bradford Street Tonbridge, Kent
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/d...yContent&sourceNode=134095&contentPK=12946747
also in the Yorkshire Post 4.8.05
and the Bath Chronicle 4.8.05
more to come, I suspect