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• they have pain as all animals do!!!
• Cruel
  wouldn%26#039;t
  anywhere
  wasn%26#039;t
  
  Hang on, it still makes no sense.
  
  Oh I see, that fact that we are responsible for thier existence doen%26#039;t mean we have the right to abuse them, parents are responsible for the existence opf thier children, right?
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• hunting is more cruel then fishing... I don%26#039;t think fishing is cruel. you don%26#039;t hang fish on your walls or exactly do it for fun... exactly. Hunting is just disgusting.. fish, not so much
• is it not cruel to stick a hook in a fishes mouth and pull pull pull
• I%26#039;m not sure what you mean in the last part of the question - aquatic life was happpily living in seas, rivers, lakes etc. long before we came along and started harpooning them.
  
  On the cruelty front, fishing generally involves the fish being dragged out of the water via the medium of a hook through it%26#039;s mouth, once out of the water the fish then suffocates whilst being either dangled ten feet in the air, or plonked on a canal bank among the used needles and crisp packets.
  
  I appreciate that in some instances, the fish are kept alive in a bucket (what must appear to be a prison in which they are effectively blind) and handled by a human (thus sustaing burns due to the heat transfer and fish being cold blooded) to be weighed and inspected (a bit like an alien abduction) before being unceremoniously lobbed back with it%26#039;s mouth wound untended.
  
  You may consider them to be %26quot;just fish%26quot;, but they are sentient beings with a central and peripheral nervous system - therefore capable of feeling pain, fear and disorientation.
  
  Well, you did ask!
• imagine having a meat hook pulled through your cheek,,,,,,,,sounds fairly cruel to me!
• Fish are wild creatures and do not require fishermen to exist (except in stocked ponds).
  
  Many feel it is cruel because it often involves the suffocation and death of the fish, or damage from the hook. There is a debate as to whether fish can feel pain, but some evidence suggest they do. Anglers are also responsible for the damage done to many other animals through leaving lines and hooks about, killing swans and ducks.
• *cruel
• Would you like a hook in your mouth?
• Maybe not cruel. Barbaric maybe. Check the definition.
• Fishing is cruel because fish are living creatures with brains and a nervous system.That means they can feel fear and pain.You can pretty much guarantee they feel both when a hook gets caught in their mouth and they are dragged from the water and then either beaten to death or shown off to the fisherman%26#039;s friends for several minutes all the while suffocating before being thrown back.
  
  Fish existed long before people did-they certainly don%26#039;t need people to live.