how to convince people that fishing /hunting is not a sport?

Question

i think you can fish or hunt if you are hungry and will take only what you need for yourself and family. Why are there still thousands of people that will go out fishing just for the fun of it when most of them are already overfed (overweight).The oceans have to be protected from "fun fishing".

Answer 1

The fact that you asked this question proves that you have never done either one well. Any idiot can go out in the woods/out in a boat and sit and say they went Hunting/fishing, that doesn't mean they are a hunter/fisherman.

Both are sports.

More money is raised for protection of the land and water resources by sportsmen than all other means. What the Oceans need to be protected from are not the sport fishermen, but the commercial fishing fleets that just want to harvest as much as possible without any thought to how it effects the eco-system.

Answer 2

No, the oceans have to be protected from "Let's drop a big huge net in and just scoop up everything and what we don't want it doesn't matter if it dies before we throw it back in" fishing. 95% of traditional commercially fished species are gone, this is not because of Joe Schmoe going out in his fishing boat and catching a couple grouper. 85% of species that we didn't consider food fish 30 years ago are already fished out... again, this is not a case of me or you or anyone going out and fishing for them. And yet there are shows and more money being made about the same type of thing... crab, lobster, all of them, remember, when seafood prices go up, it's because population of said animal goes down.

Responsible fishing and hunting has next to no impact on local wildlife population. Note, I said responsible. You take a deer or whatever, you use all the meat... you don't take a couple cuts from it and leave the rest to rot. You catch a fish, you make sure it's not oversized (breeder) or undersized (future breeder) and you stick with your catch limits, you can actually HELP research being done on various fish species. (Some areas tag certain species of fish to keep track of migration and territory data, catch a tagged fish, send in info on when and where you caught it and how big it was, those fish scientists love it.)

Hunting, by the way, in areas where there are no more large carnivores helps with overpopulation of game species, and the way I see it, a deer has a lot more of a chance than a cow or pig or chicken before it goes to the grocery store.

Edited to add....
Btw, I don't think of hunting and fishing as sports, because I don't think of poker and chess and sports. Hunting and fishing are survival skills, much more important than sports.

Answer 3

well, go on an elk hunt in colorado and tell me by the time you walk between 7- 25 miles that hunting is not a sport. I do believe that you opened a can that you can't close boy. Amd then after you go on that elk hunt why don't you try your hand at some high stakes tournament fishing with the pros and see what they have to deal with to be able to fish as well as they do, and how physicaly draining it is to be on the water in 100+ degree temps with the sun beating down on you all day with no shelter. Yet, these guys do it every year and put up with it to win.

Answer 4

"Fun fishing" isn't the problem with ocean
ecology. If anything it is gigantic ships with
nets that take in 100000 fish that they want
and maybe 40000 that they don't and of the
40000 they don't want, 30000 actually survive
getting put back into the ocean.

Overfishing is not a private 'for fun' sport.
It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of equipment just to play the game.

Consider that the average sport fisherman, on
a supremely good day might catch, say, 10
of his target.

That being said, sport hunting isn't usually
a problem in the US but it is getting to be
a problem with people hunting down endangered
species elsewhere - they certainly aren't doing it
for the protein.

There, however, the big problem is not people
hunting as sport, but people going after endangered
species because of some trophy product such as
ivory - and selling it on the black market. Generally,
these guys are doing it just to survive, but the people
who buy it are "emboldening" (bolstering) them.

Answer 5

You never will convince a true outdoorsman that either are not sports. Both are mentally and physically challenging as much as golf or bowling. Have you ever went fishing on a hot humid day on water that is white capping from the wind. Making hundreds of casts to try to catch fish that don't seem to want to bite anything, so you try to figure out where they might be, what they might eat. How they want it to look. If you tried you would quit and not like it. To those of us that have compiled knowledge about it, and always wanting to learn more. We have a passion for it and it is a SPORT.

Answer 6

sport fishing is good for the economy
most captains on fishing boat are responsible
they keep the law and tag and release
it doesnt hurt the fish and gives the rich a way
to have some fun.
the deer population is way more than needed right now
dont believe me? ride down the highway for five mins and you will probably be seeing the carcass of a deer on the side of the road
hunters do more for game management than any panty
waist person sitting behind a PC and bitching and moaning about totally nothing that should be of concern to them, my opinion
next time you want to feel sorry for the poor dumb animals how about going out to see them and let them know about it!

Answer 7

Get over it if more folks would fish or hunt the world would be a better place its the big boats with large nets that indescrimanatly kill off all species of fish and non regulated commercial fishing that hurts the oceans.

Answer 8

Fishing and hunting ARE sports (especially when people consider poker and chess sports). There are many values to hunting and fishing. First of all, it's a great past-time for families. My dad would take me and my brothers fishing/hunting throughout my childhood, and they are some of my best memories. Hunting is an active sport where you can walk 15 miles in one day, and takes skill and knowledge. Fishing is not as active, but is a great way to relax and relieve stress.

One thing you have to realize about recreational hunting/fishing is that, in America, they are designed to NOT lead to over-harvesting a certain game. The Fish & Game department has scientists which go out and count the number of a game, calculate that ecosystem's sustainable yield (how many of that species it can handle) and issue limits/tags for the number that species is overpopulated. Say if one ecosystem can handle 15,000 whitetail deer, and there are 16,000 that year, the Fish & Game will issue 1,000 tags. This HELPS the species. It keeps them within healthy numbers. If we were to leave a species alone, it would grow out of control... causing its predators to start to grow out of control. Then the original species would start to die off from disease and starvation. Now those predators that gew in numbers out of control don't have enough to eat, and they start to die of disease and starvation. Instead of a stable, healthy ecosystem, you have one that "Sea-saws", causing it to be very unstable, unhealthy, and possibly fatal to some species that reside within it.

I personally eat everything I kill, or use it to feed my families. I never waste game I've killed. You should stop assuming that those of us who enjoy outdoor recreation are raping the forests and only killing animals to gain more trophies.

Answer 9

Hmmm. Well I consider fishing and hunting the only sports! Football , baseball or that kinda stuff I call a GAME.

Answer 10

Those who can hunt and fish do.
Those without a clue, complain.

Why not learn to appreciate the sport. You might just learn a thing or to that will convince yourself that you are wrong in your opinion. Or maybe not.