A bit of a bizarre one here.
Three years ago I decided to start fishing off the back of my boat.
One of the first fish I hooked was a massive pike.(it really was that big).
I’ve been led to believe that fish are incapable of feeling pain because their brains aren’t complex enough for what ever reason?
If that’s the case, then why did this pike make small squealing noises when I had to use some pliers/forceps to remove the embedded hook from deep down?
just to add, it must of been out of the water for five or six minutes.
I felt rotten & never fished since that day as it slowly slinked off Into the water.
I am of the opinion all animals can feel pain regardless of what scientists that don't yet know everything say on the matter, to use that ' all animals can feel pain ' to govern my dealings with them.
Where of fishing, I used to fish but don't anymore because I am not longer in such a dire financial position so as to be forced to fish for food for myself to consider the act of fishing for food as hunting.
As was it always was whenever I landed anything, before even attempting to remove the hook whilst the fish was drowning in air I stuck my fingers down it's throat and broke it's neck.
One day it was another fisherman watched me doing this to ask why for me to tell him the Japanese of whom most would agree are masters at fish preparation believe a caught fish must not suffer needlessly as a fish left to drown in air or be clumsily clubbed unconscious to drown in air shoots the body with adrenaline of which taints the meat, as no way was I going to tell him I felt for the animals I caught.
Anyway later that day when I had caught enough Atlantic Mackeral to see me through the week, the guy I was talking to earlier was hauling in a great big Pollack, to land it, to on seeing me ask me to demonstrate on that monster, To find not two fingers but all four to render the same action effortlessly done. The next I saw the guy he said he'd been doing what I had shown him, he didn't say whether the meat was better, to consider he might be doing it for the same reasons I was.