Do fish feel pain? - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Baack · **^ Top** #1 06.14.2009

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Here we go again. There is a new study out that contends fish feel pain. A professor at Purdue and his Norwegian graduate student attached small foil heaters to goldfish. Half of the goldfish were injected with morphine, half with saline, and then the researchers turned on the attached micro-toasters. After the heat was gone, the fish without painkillers "acted with defensive behaviors, indicating wariness, or fear and anxiety." They had also developed a lovely brown crust. These results echo a 2003 study by researchers from the University of Edinburgh who shot bee venom into the lips of trout. The bee-stung fish rubbed their lips in the gravel of their tank and generally seemed pissed off.

Whenever one of these studies about fish pain appears, animal lovers start glaring at me and my fellow fishermen. If fish can experience pain, then angling must be a cruel sport, right up there with deer hunting, bear baiting, and eating hot dogs. Why can't we just leave fish alone and do something else?

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Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #2 06.14.2009

I don't really know.....has anyone asked Walleye that question?

Sorry...somebody had to be a smart a-z-z......

Baack · **^ Top** #3 06.14.2009

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Originally Posted by Working Class Patriot

I don't really know.....has anyone asked Walleye that question?

Sorry...somebody had to be a smart a-z-z......

Oh sure another fish story coming LOL

panhandlepat · **^ Top** #4 06.14.2009

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according to PETA they do. EVEN when dead, we shouldn't throw them across the market LOL....

PETA peeved over Pike Place fish-throwing demo

05:34 PM PDT on Tuesday, June 9, 2009

By KING5.com Staff and Associated Press

Seattle's Pike Place Market

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SEATTLE -- A national veterinary association says it might use rubber fish instead of real ones if it goes through with a fish-throwing demonstration at its convention next month in Seattle.
The asciation made its decision following complaints from People for the Ethical Treaent of Animals.
Ron DeHaven, chief executive of the American Veterinary Medical Association, based in Schaumburg, Ill., says his organization thought having one of Seattle's top tourist attractions - the fish-throwers at the Pike Place Fish Market - come to the event would be a great "team-building experience."
But after PETA raised concerns about the ethics of using dead fish as props at a veterinary event, DeHaven said the association would explore other options.

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Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #5 06.14.2009

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otherhalftw · **^ Top** #6 06.14.2009

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Originally Posted by Working Class Patriot

I don't really know.....has anyone asked Walleye that question?

Sorry...somebody had to be a smart a-z-z......

Don't forget "the Beave(r)! Where are June and Mr. Cleaver when you need them?

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #7 06.14.2009

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Originally Posted by otherhalftw

Don't forget "the Beave(r)! Where are June and Mr. Cleaver when you need them?

That would be Wally, not Walleye.

PharmPhail · **^ Top** #8 06.14.2009

I've always assumed everyone knew it was probably excruciating for the fish and simply didn't care. The study seems a bit redundant. What would be interesting is a study of those who fish but don't hunt mammals, then we could learn how many people thought fish didn't feel pain.

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #9 06.15.2009

I've heard fish don't feel pain all my life. I always kinda figured it was an old fisherman's tale to help people from feeling guilty about the act of fishing. I've never really been overly concerned about it. After all, God created man to rule over the animals and use them for food.

otherhalftw · **^ Top** #10 06.15.2009

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That would be Wally, not Walleye.

Not if WCP were a pirate....EYYEEEE Matey?

And to add to this...now I am pissed off (better than being pissed on..I know, I know), given the information we have gleened from this discussion..I put to a vote (hands, secret ballot, that new card thing..whatever) but: I nominate our POTUS, to get out in that wide open sea, (Pacific, Atlantic, no matter) and stop those big nasty Great White Sharks from biting, and hurting all the other little fishies, since now we have scientific proof, that FISH FEEL PAIN!

Are you feeling their pain too brother...then get out there and help those poor itty bitty fishies!

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