Why not ban fishing for sport too?

I was thinking about the fox hunt thing ... As much as I totally agree with the ban on hunting with dogs ... I still see this as only becoming policy because it is generally quite popular.

So how far should a government go to stop something as popular as fishing for sport?

Would a ban on this sort of cruelty ever be addressed by any government or would they just be too scared of losing votes?

Is enough being done to educate people against it?


More about fishing

 

I've always thought fishing should be banned.

 

Me too, even when I was eating fish I always saw sports fishing as cruel and pointless.

But I was pondering more about the hypocrisy of the government not addressing the issue, seeing that it is the UK's most popular participant "sport"?

 

I think fish are seen as less sentient than mammals. I also think that since the majority of fisherment don't pursue fishing with "the kill" as their main intent, it's not seen in such a negative light.

 

I often hear "veggies" who say they eat fish as they are vegetables of the sea....how weird is that ........ban it i say

 

Vegetables of the sea? hahahaha. Yeah and people's minds are the vegetables of the world

 

....ban it i say...i.agree

 

When I was little, I went fishing with some of my relatives. I myself didn't fish and was scared (the boat was wooden & old & I didn't know how to swim) and kind of disgusted and confused by it all. However, I did look inside the can in which the fish were slowly being choked. But I didn't throw them back into the water.
:*(
Oh, what a stupid, stupid kid I was!!!

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www.animalsvoice.com/PAGES/archive/fishing.html

 

So how would we get the government to even consider a fishing ban?

I might be wrong but I don't think I've ever seen fishing sabs or demos ... and if they exist they get very little publicity.

 

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Why ban fishing? Fishermen often throw the fish back, not killing them, whereas in fox hunting the sole purpose of the outing is to kill a fox, fishing isnt cruel.

Ban wrestling instead, fat people fighting in their pants really is cruel.

 

Me too , but i also think that fishing the oceans with huge nets should be banned as well. Though this would put people out of business and create human suffering and that would not be fair would it ??.

 

Can't say I'd lose much sleep over it. If you're that bothered about it though, then subsidise the slow winding down of the industry until all the jobs have been replaced.

 

I never liked the idea of hunting; especially with the use of dogs. (bear, fox, coon etc) Dogs make it too damn easy. Fishing is different for me though. In my area, catch and release has become the norm rather than exception. Sportsman respect it and will release spawning and large fish and simply take a picture of it and have a replica made to show off to their buddies. Barb hooks are okay if properly extracted. But there always seems to be an idiot in every crowd that throws all rules out the window.

 

I don't agree with fishing as a sport that just causes distress to innocent fish for our own pleasure. Fish are people too remember! Fish have feelings! I agree with fishing if people are doing it to catch fish to eat, as do I agree with hunting for food. If you're going to kill something you should eat it I think....

 

Me personaly ??, i don't earn enough money for that one.
If the slow wind down of all the industries i have problems with ever happened this world would have plenty of time on its hands .. not a hell of a lot of jobs and possibly a few smiles on ladies faces.

 

any sport where the object is to prove your domination over one from another species in an intrusive, aggressive, intimidating manner is dubious.
You can use your intellect (after all, that is where we are suprerior to other species in so far as domination is concerned, and where the thrill of these sports comes from) to study, track, photograph and generally marvel at many things in nature without diturbing them at all - in fact to make this the object, to be an observer without ever disturbing the subjects. There is no need for the intrusion, the aggression, the domination and intimidation that goes with all these sports.

 

I agree with most of this but there is a limit to where it all leads. By all means lets protect all the little fluffy animals and even the fish but then what will happen. Will it lead to insects and then on to talking to the trees.

I think in the UK we are sometimes protecting animals at the risk of making peoples lives miserable. That animal rights campaigners should dig up human remains as a protest defies all belief. I realise that some of the activists love animals more than they love people but a Spanish friend of mine pointed out that in his country they do still treat bulls badly but then at the same time they don't need a Society for the Protection of cruelty to children.

Lets put the human house in order first, look after other fellow human beings who sometimes need as much protection, if not more, than a barn full of guinea pigs.

 

Respect for all forms of life go hand in hand. If we can't even treat animals with due dignity, it's unlikely we'll manage to treat humans with dignity either.

 

Look at the folks who are fishing: standing with a sad face in extremely cold water, not standing there because they like it but it's because they have nothing better to do. Come on, it's against human rights to let people stand there! Get them out of the water, it's so emberassing! O yes, it's bad for the fish either...