Or Pike or Perch.... or possibly even the odd Carp.
Why on earth should we be disgusted at the prospect of eating the odd coarse fish ?
There are many brilliant french recipes for Pike, especially Quenelles. Perch tastes almost as good as brown trout and infinitely better than rainbow trout. The Carp is a mainstay of Chinese fish cuisine, with some amazing ways of preparing it.
I am not a vegetarian and I see no reason at all why we, as the fishing community, should start lobbying to make all fish effectively sacrosanct. Let alone the fact that it would mean the end of livebaiting and deadbaiting with coarse fish - only dead sea baits would be legal. You can't eat your cake and have it too...
As long as fish are caught by legal means, are of legal size to take, that taking is permitted by the owner of the water and the fish taken are genuinely for one's own consumption I see no problems with that.
Nor would I wish to lose my (very very rarely exercised but nonetheless real) right to take and eat the odd coarse fish; lost to the present and growing hysteria about foreign immigrants using deadlines, nets, grapnels and dynamite.
The answer is to stop them doing it, not to make the taking of any and all fish to eat an offence.
Even if we did go to such extraordinary lengths it would be pointless if not enforced. That is where the present situation is plainly lacking. The laws are adequate, the enforcement is pathetic. Frogmen with spears after Mussels for heaven's sake.
And before the "disgust" lobby goes too far do we really want to follow the example of the ludicrously over-protective RSPB ? Who, by dint of enormous membership subscriptions and consequential political clout have managed to have every single bird in Britain listed as protected.
Yep, that's all of them. Every single blessed one. Whether endangered or not.
Including Cormorants of whatever size. And Magpies, egg stealers extraordinaire - surprise surprise at the decline in the sparrow population as a result of their predation. But that's what happens when fanaticism takes over from rational balance.