Thursday
Mar172011
Here we go again
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 12:00AM 
New research from Queens University in Belfast seems to suggest that fish do indeed feel pain.
LINK (Via: Spiegal)
Talk amongst yourselves.
tagged fish in the news, fish science in News
fish in the news, fish science in News
Reader Comments (11)
We all have problems. Cows feel pain too, and I'll eat the shit outta them.
Of course fish feel pain. So do cows, and chickens, and spiders, and fetuses. The question is whether we attach any significance to that pain. And, I submit, fishermen must answer "no." If we premise our ability to fish on the notion that fish don't feel pain, we just (1) look dumb, and (2) can and will lose our ability to fish once it is proven that fish do indeed feel pain...which I'm sure will happen fairly soon.
Good. I hope they do feel pain. That's why I fish. I get aroused the moment I set the hook - just imagining the sharp point jamming through the fish's lip. I sense a silent scream and my pants get tighter. I play the fish until total exhaustion - or until I release and then I go home and sleep.
When the buzzers sing or the float dips etc etc, the last think I'm thinking is "oh my god, am I hurting it?" At the moment I set the hook and the fight is on, I have nothing else on my mind...100% focus on playing and landing it.
Yeah but it's a good kind of pain. Sort of like going backdoor.
Is Nemo 2 coming out? Those marketing guys at Disney are genius.
Fish feel pain? Fish fall in love and produce oxytocin? Dude, pass the divining rod and the crystals, I can "feel" mother earth goddess Gaia communicating with me!
fish feel pain but their brain only allow the acknowledgement of that pain for 3 seconds as proven by many fishermen that have caught and released and a minute later caught the very same fish again
I feel guilty but the picture is turning me on!
Fish feel pain... ok,
fish are the center of a multi-billion dollar passtime. Will we be band to fish, nah. Will we be harased by all our lives by tree hugers and animal right agencies, at some degree.
Dose this bother me?
Isint fishing one of the best thrills?
No, madam, I do NOT advocate driving razor-sharp hooks into the tender mouths of little fish. I advocate driving razor-sharp hooks into the TOUGH mouths of BIG fish.