Rant on fishing

[ladyrowan]

I've just read an article in the paper from an angler bragging about how many blue sharks he's caught.
Here's part of it:

"For 20 minutes I reeled the shark in, letting it run with the line several times to tire it out.............What I love about shark fishing is the thrill of reeling in a catch"

This makes me so ANGRY!!!
What gives him the right to decide that he will torture a fish, any fish, playing with it, deliberately tiring it out and probably scaring the living daylights out of it, just to give him a thrill!!!!
And he calls it a sport! I'll bet the poor fish doesn't think so.

There was also a picture of him next to his 'prize', the shark hanging up by a hook in it's mouth - grotesque!

He says he always throws them back in as though this makes it allright.

Some might excuse these actions because sharks can kill people, but thats nature, and nature can seem cruel. Is angling nature? I think not.

Anyone agree?

BB

[Sequoia]

I hate that. I think it's aweful. But people have been doing it for centuries, so they think it makes it okey. I don't fish. I mean, I can't catch the fish and if I tried to of late (now that I've begun considering other creatures besides us selfish humans), I would probably get extremely upset over it. I have only caught one fish in my life, and that was when I was very little. And I didn't play with it or hurt it, I think it's aweful to do so. It's so cruel.

But I'm sure there's going to be some fisherman here to argue with us about this.

[ladyrowan]

I'm sure there is Puma. I've had many arguments with anglers over this, one of them being my ex-husband as well as a few boyfriends since. So i think I've heard all the arguments there are, but I will never, never change my mind on this.
Same as for all blood sports. Sickening.

BB

[Sequoia]

I don't understand how anyone could hunt for sport. I can understand for survival; you have to do what you have to do. But for sport!? it's just wrong!!

on my way up here (I'm at my brother's right now, vacation, so I dono when I"ll next be at a compie after today and tommorrow), I was riding in the car with my dad and there was a traffic jam. Everyone was practically stopping their cars. We got closer, and there was this brown fur lump in the road. . . I almost cried out, it was a baby deer. There was a car by the side of the road with his windshield smashed, and this deer in the middle of the road, it looked like it's neck had broken and it was bleeing. . . gods I spent the next good 20 min praying for it. I don't know who's the god of deer, but I asked whomever it was to please help it's own. . . how anyone could bring that kind of suffering upon another living creature and soul is beyond me. About the only thing I'll kill is a spider, and that's because black widows like to hang out in my bedroom and I don't want to wake up dead. To me, it's nessicary. But they don't suffer, they don't get shot and run away to die slowly, they don't get dunked into water where they can't breathe (like fish out of water, it's horrible!). I think fisherman should get a treatment of what it's like, if they're just doing it for sport. *sighs and shakes head*

[quixote]

not that I condone it but it is another path. They just can't see the consequences of their actions.
BB, quixote

[TheTempestuous1]

I know what you guys mean about fishing, my dad and brother and I were fishing once and they caught these little fish that made these little snorty piggy sounds. I felt so bad for them, it was like they were crying. = ( But I am a hypocrite, bc I eat meat and I'll never be a vegitarian. Although I won't eat veal. I just feel so sorry for animals.

Meghan

[Yvonne Belisle]

My personal opinion is if you are going to catch it then you eat it. I do not include the insects or snakes and frogs that my children catch as they are kept in a humain tank that has been landscaped for the animals for a few hours so they can observe and learn from them then they are released they aren't chased or hurt in the capture or in the releasing. My husband and I fish but it goes into the freezer and my family eats what they catch. If my husband choses to go hunting in season it will be eaten we are a low income family and it does help us to give more variety to what we have to eat for us it is survival. I don't feel that hunting or fishing should be a sport either the buffulo hunters treated it as a sport and look what happened. They started out with enough to feed those that were there first and those that moved into the territory but by hunting for skins and suveniers they destoyed an entire ecosystem.

[Xois]

yes, if you are gonna do it, eat it!

doing it for sport is mean and cruel

[rantnraven]

I shot a piece of paper this weekend. Didn't eat it though.:D

I agree that, if you hunt it, it becomes food. That was the way I was raised. However, if I don't have to hunt, I won't. I'de rather go to the market if I can.

Life is there for life, NOT for sport.

BB,
RnR