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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:26:25 +0100, "Greengrass"
<leonardfearnley@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>SAD BASTARD

Very true. How could anyone ever get pleasure from abusing an animal?
I suppose this is where care in the community fails us.

I mean if I want fun I climb a mountain, walk on water, or ride the
rapides. There is no real fun in abuse.

Good point SnodGrass



>"Malcolm" <Malcolm@malcsplace.com> wrote in message
>news:5d11e488221e246b2ae26e464a8e1512@free.teranews.com...
>> CLOSE UP ON ANGLING
>> A cruel sport
>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk
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>> There are three types of angling - coarse, sea and game. Coarse
>> angling is by far the most popular and probably the most cruel.
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>> Most types of freshwater fish (ie. from rivers, streams and ponds) are
>> hunted by coarse anglers, the exceptions being salmon, trout and
>> grayling. Their target species include pike, roach, perch, rudd, dace,
>> bleak, bream, tench, barbel, carp and chub. Most are inedible.
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>> As well as a rod, line and hook, coarse anglers have to buy a licence
>> to enable them to fish. Where a lake, river, canal or reservoir is
>> privately owned, a day or season ticket is required.
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>> Maggots are the most common bait and are impaled live onto the hook.
>> Earthworms, mealworms and bloodworms are used in the same way.
>> Sometimes livebait is applied - small live fish, usually impaled on
>> treble hooks to attract predatory fish.
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>> A close season runs from 15 March to 15 June, although regulations
>> vary in different regions of the country. The close season is supposed
>> to be a time to allow fish respite during their spawning season,
>> though it has been scrapped on all still waters (ponds, lakes and
>> reservoirs) since 1995.
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>> The most common argument used to defend angling is that fish don't
>> feel pain. This is untrue. Fish are vertebrates, with a brain, a
>> central nervous system and pain receptors all over their bodies,
>> including the lips. As with mammals, it is a biological necessity to
>> feel pain and without this capacity they would not survive. Scientific
>> research from around the world substantiates this.
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>> In a 1996 report examining the welfare of farmed fish, the Ministry of
>> Agriculture's official advisory body, the Farm Animal Welfare Council,
>> noted that:
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>> 'Almost all fish live the whole of their lives in water and show a
>> maximal emergency response when removed from water, even for a very
>> short period. This response includes changes in heart rate, increased
>> production of adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol and vigorous
>> muscle contractions ... All of the scientific evidence concerning such
>> effects makes it clear that the term stress is certainly relevant to
>> fish and that the means by which stress effects are mediated are very
>> similar to those in mammals. Evidence that the term pain is applicable
>> to fish comes from anatomical, physiological and behavioural studies
>> whose results are very similar to those of studies on birds and
>> mammals. The fact that fish are cold blooded does not prevent them
>> from having a pain system and, indeed, such a system is valuable in
>> preserving life and maximising the biological fitness of individuals.'
>> Farm Animal Welfare Council Report on the Welfare of Farmed Fish,
>> September 1996.
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>> Fish are caught with either a barbed or barbless hook. Barbed hooks
>> cause more damage and are now banned at an increasing number of
>> fisheries, but barbless hooks also cause lacerating injuries. Hooked
>> fish will struggle out of fear and physical pain. They are then
>> dragged out of the water into an alien environment in which they start
>> to suffocate, just as we would if we were pulled under water. Their
>> gills - similar to our lungs - collapse and may bleed. The swim
>> bladder can rupture due to the sudden change in pressure on their
>> bodies. Breathing is virtually impossible.
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>> The fish is then handled. Even with wet hands, as recommended by
>> anglers, this handling removes the invisible outer mucus layer which
>> provides waterproofing. Fish are consequently left open to infection
>> if/when eventually returned to water. Time out of water is prolonged
>> by those who want their photograph taken with their catch in the hope
>> of getting a picture in an angling magazine.
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>> If injured and traumatised fish survive the ordeal of being caught
>> they may still die later through stress, or be so weakened that they
>> are easy prey for predators.
>>
>> Anglers present themselves as custodians of the countryside. They
>> claim to be conservationists without whom there would be no fish. Yet
>> those anglers who monitor waterways, clean up fisheries or take
>> polluters to court are greatly outnumbered by those who treat their
>> environment with contempt. Hooks and nylon line is lost or discarded,
>> with deadly consequences for wildlife. Litter is left behind,
>> including jagged bait cans. Maggots contaminated with salmonella and
>> botulism have proved fatal to wildfowl. Trampling of vegetation often
>> turns banks into mudslides, while the excessive amount of bait which
>> is catapulted into the water can rot and pollute.
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>> Each year more waterside birds and mammals die because of discarded
>> monofilament than the total number of swans ever killed by lead
>> poisoning.
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>> For more information visit the Campaign for the Abolition of Angling's
>> website at www.anti-angling.com.
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>> So, you dont like reasoned,
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>> I understand.
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So, you dont like reasoned, 
well thought out, civil debate?

I understand.

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