2006-07-12 05:51:17 · 8 answers · asked by virginia red 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Fishing
Sure, fish have nerves, but not many right around the mouth, so it doesn't hurt them much. If you intend to fish only for sport, however, (don't intend to eat your catch), use barbless hooks -- doesn't cause the fish any more or less pain, but does less damage when you pull it out, so the fish is much more likely to survive once you let it go.
2006-07-12 05:56:06 · answer #1 · answered by theyuks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Imagine reaching for an apple on a tree and having your hand suddenly impaled by a metal hook that drags you—the whole weight of your body pulling on that one hand—out of the air and into an atmosphere in which you cannot breathe. This is what fish experience when they are hooked for “sport.”
Many people grow up fishing without ever considering the terror and suffering that fish endure when they’re impaled by a hook and pulled out of the water. Recreational anglers rarely stop to contemplate that fish are complex and intelligent individuals. In fact, if anglers treated cats, dogs, cows, or pigs the way they treat fish, they would be thrown in prison on charges of cruelty to animals."
LMAO
I'm not buying it. I've caught hundreds of fish and have yet to see one start crying. They have no nerves in the facial area. However it is humane to use barbless or round Jap hooks. I also carry a club to kill the larger fish before throwing them in the ice chest.
2006-07-12 11:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by noils 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish don't feel it. They don't have nerves like us, they have thought and instinct to swim away when something doesn't feel right and realize he just meesed up and bit down on my Super Spinnner Large Gold leaf trouble hook lazer sharp Jig.
2006-07-19 02:21:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know I'm not a fish. But i killed a bat ray when i was a kid and it skreetch when i was stabbing it in the head. I will never forget it and i will never kill a bat ray again (true story) but we ate the wings they were great
2006-07-12 05:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by darrenfanelli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some will tell you they don't feel pain, but i caught a baby cat fish by it's whisker one time and when i pulled it out of the water it was screaming. so i say yes.
2006-07-12 05:56:41 · answer #5 · answered by sheepherder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as u dont go off and hook them way deep in the mouth or in the gills. and dont yank the hook to hard when taking it out
2006-07-12 06:03:19 · answer #6 · answered by fish fish fish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON'T CARE, FUN TO CATCH AND TASTE GOOD.
2006-07-12 17:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by jerry m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your gay
2006-07-12 05:54:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋