Do fish feel pain?

Interesting article i found about the question stated above. Do fish feel pain? - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

 

I breathe, therefore I feel

very good article

 

Lame seakitten page - no clowns

 

my personal favorite is do carrots feel pain when they are being peeled...i chuckled a bit

 

Kind of a dumb question so I will pass on the article....
If a tree falls in the woods and no ones around does it make any noise....
Danny

 

i love that one coldshot

 

Wow interesting article. I go fishing all of the time, and I feel no remorse for it. We have 3 main ponds in my neighborhood, and I've fished in every single one of them since I was 7 years old. I got catch of the week in the paper with a 5 pound largemouth when I was 14 because of those ponds.

I believe that yes fish feel pain, but they don't "feel" it. They aren't saying "ouch" or in agony, they're bodies just "know" that something is where it shouldn't be. Whether the fish is out of water (and fish aren't supposed to be out of water), or a hook is in its mouth. They're brain simply tells them to avoid whatever is making things "wrong".

I've seen a 6 foot caribbean reef shark with a hook, leader, and a sinker dangling from his mouth. He wasn't acting stressed or as if anything was out of the ordinary. He was circling my dive buddy and myself like all the other sharks were Soon, that hook will rust out of his mouth and all he'll know is that the heavy thing is gone. He didn't behave in a way that he was pissed off about all the pain he was going through because of the hook in his mouth.

I have a friend who always brought up the "fishing hurts fish" argument. I took her fishing, and I haven't heard a word about it since then

When a bucket of grunts, snapper, or bluegill, or what-have-you tastes so stinking good, I could care less about what the fish is going through. If some people hate fishing because of what it does to fish, try SPEAR fishing

 

Very nice and informative article. Thanks for sharing such a nice article.

 

cool,sorry but i cant read its not like there's somethings wrong or anything, it's just that pictures are just some much more interesting imo and let me also add i should be sleep lol

 

Just curious, if they do feel pain, where are going with this?