killing fish to keep

beachbuddy

beachbuddy

heartening to know catch nowt too beachbuddy ..it happens... but you ve still not posted a reason you find knocking keepers such a stupid thing to do ...Ive tried but can't fathom any reason not to ....I really would be interested to know.....
 
Kill yer fish? Why man yer just gerra hold of the fish, put you thumb behind its heed and bend its heed reet back. Thats worradee wirrall my patients. ;O)
 
to the doctor

to the doctor

as long as its fast and effective doc...no need to perform surgery (deep hook removal) on a live ceature .. can't think why anyone would want to
 
Think you need to take up some think else to do with your time if the fact of killing fish clearly affects you take up some thing less barbaric happy days :)
 
I'm sure that everyone who calls themselves an angler will treat their catch with respect and dispatch their catch quickly and humanely. No angler likes to see fish mistreated as has been proven many times in the past with peoples outspoken views on people leaving mackerel flapping about on the pier and people keeping undersized fish. I actually can't believe there has been so many posts against what neefish was saying in the original post, which was basically if a fish is deep hooked and your going to keep it, dispatch it humanely first before trying to unhook it.
 
thanx

thanx

cheers for support chaps..good guys in the majority..Like Phil , I too am surprised anyone can object to my post...makes you wonder what the antis have upstairs..they obviously dont think very much if at all and could care even less about fish or anything else.... A ''couldn't give a toss'' attitude could give us a clue as to who the anglers??? are who leave the rubbish and loose line lying around at their backsides. .
 
neefish said:
On many of the sea fishing vids I see and sadly where ever I've seen sea fish caught , they are given absolutely no resect I.E. putting them out of their distress with a couple of knocks on the head as soon as they are landed .. It seems that most in sea angling circles think it ok to mess the fish about howkin away at the hooks whilst struggling with a very much alive, aware and flapping fish. if a fish is to be kept surely it's both much easier and kinder all round to knock it first then perform deep surgery to retieve the hooks. I saw a video on youtube of a Norwegian codding trip from Sunderlad where one of the ''gentlemen'' lifted a fish out about 10lbs by its eye sockets.. clever lad .... I'd like to think he has the treatment returned one day
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shall we apply the same rules for lobsters, crabs...mussels....maybe even plants?

i guess anyone who eats, uses, kills living creatures is in the same dilemma ...never easy.

still every carefully caught and taken fish from the sea is better than trawler or longline stuff.

i somehow refuse to compare the dispatching of a mammal with the one of a fish.

how do we know that slamming a fish dead or stabbing etc is "kind" and better than any other method.

lobster lovers around the world argue what is the "nicest" way to kill them...and surprise surprise nobody knows really

i would say, leave it with evryone and stop lecturing...maybe holding a coalie in the eyesocket is a very good way of holding them? Some say that grabbing them by the gills is awful...its their lungs !!
 
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"It's ok to eat fish, coz they don't have any feelings" - K Cobain :D

The study of James D. Rose, a professor of zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming, has concluded that awareness of pain depends on functions of specific regions of the cerebral cortex that fish do not possess.
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If fish can't feel pain, can crabs feel pain or lobsters, mussels, periwinkles? if they really can't then your point is moot neefish.
 
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If fish etc. don't feel pain why do crabs nip as a form of defence?
It's all subjective as to what 'pain' is.
So I would rather remove all doubt and kill my fish quickly.
 
100% agree with you here mate. Treat a fish with as much care as possible if putting back and kill it when keeping. Can't see any other reason why anyone would do otherwise
 
I personally despatch my fish quickly its what I was taught by my father when fishing as a lad imo its the right thing to do but not everybody will and that's fine everybody to there own
 
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