Description: It may be a sport, but fish do feel pain and suffering. Learn about how you can fight against fishing in your area today.
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Billions of fish die every year in nets and on hooks. Humans kill most fish for consumption, torture many just for “sport,” and maim or kill other unintended victims simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that “fish” is both a noun representing conscious, feeling beings and a verb describing how humans kill them ought to catch our attention.
Fish begin to suffocate when humans yank them out of the water. Their gills often collapse, and their swim bladders can rupture because of the sudden change in pressure. Numerous scientific reports from around the world confirm that fish feel pain. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow studied the pain receptors in fish and found that they were strikingly similar to those of mammals; the researchers concluded that “fish do have the capacity for pain perception and suffering.