Do fish feel pain

[eppefour]

A friend told me there was a show on TV the other night about fish feeling pain. Several Peta types were there saying that we fishermen are cruel. I did not see the show. Did anyone here see It. I have read that fishermen were going to start having problems with PETA. They particularly don't like catch and release

[jawz12]

think about this for a second...
fish eat other fish,right ??? now these fish have fins and bones,right ??? what happens when we bite down on a fish bone,??? it hurts, right ???
fish eat other fish,including shellfish-now that's gotta hurt !! so-does a fish feel pain ??? if they did how could they eat ?? gotta say NO
those bunny huggin',dirt worshipping,tree huggin',unwashed filthy bastards,who call them selves P E T A need to get a life-mabey they should take up fishing????

[AhiSlayer]

Aloha!

Of couse fish feel pain. They have a nervous system just like any other animal. Fish spit stuff out that doesn't feel right

PETA has been saying that for years and it doesn't matter. Just like any other group that is so far off center the more they say the more people they alianate


I'd like to take all their rich Bentlty drivin backers to India and lock um up in that temple where they worship rats and lock um up for a couple nights. then lets see how much money they will to give to the quack groups

There is nothing wrong with being an animal lover but people come first. Animals should be treated with respect but when you show an animal more respect than your fellow man youve gone too far

AhiSlayer

[Mike Roni]

I'm not a fish so I can not say. Everything I have ever read says that fish do not feel pain, I could really care less though. And one thing is for sure, fish cause pain, after a long night at the canyons when the Alisons are in town I am hurtin. Has anyone else noticed that when a tuna comes boatside and you have the gaff in hand that that tuna follows that gaff with its eyes and when you go to stick it the its eye rolls back trying to see what the hell just happend.

[matey8941]

some fish like strippers have no feeling in their mouthes soo they can eat crabs and such but i bet getting pulled up from being deep and swiming for your life has to suck

[SharkJP]

hey, i have an idea. . . who cares. we stick a 4 or 5" steel hook in their head, then cut their throat to bleed them. . .and KILL THEM. my guess is that it hurts. but i still say, WHO CARES.

PETA can kiss my. . . .

[Deep C]

Something I learned at U of Miami besides "Bong 101" was the neural physiology of fish. They not only do not have nerve cells capable of pain detection, they do not have the capacity in thier brain to process such signals. They are on the low run of thought processor capability of any kind. Limited to binary fuction of yes no signals which stretched to their limits can reach only a primary if/ then reasoning...

If they felt pain I don't think I would see the same fish get released and go grab the next bait it sees. I've let a single blue shark go with a dozen of my pretty haywire twists hanging out the corner of its jaw along with a dozen of mustads finest...

[eppefour]

Bong 101 was not offered at my school. It would nhave been a sold out course. I often wondered about blue sharks. The get hooked and keep coming back for more.

[Fish Tale Charters]

I don't think fish feel pain. But, if they do there is a lot of fish out in the ocean that I have released that have killer mouth pain. WOW!!

[Sterling]

My feeling is that depends on the type of fish, and that any sense of pain is probably limited to certain locations. For example, I think that a Drumfish probably doesn't feel much of anything anywhere, yet I suspect a Tuna or marlin does have some sensitive areas.

In any case it's nothing like PETA is trying to brainwash kids with. Basically they are saying that fish feel the same pain we do. If that were true I think we would see a lot more giving up and swimming to the boat to avoid the pain, rather than yanking on the hook to get away.

By someone's design, the life of most fish is eating other fish alive, and at some point being eaten alive. I certainly don't think we are causing any more trauma than that.

I respect the fish I kill, or realease ... actually I respect the fish more than Peta.

P.S> If you didn't see the Penn & Teller video in the other thread go check it out. It's excellent.