Have you ever seen an injured dog who has been hit by a car or a cat whos been seriously hurt in a fight? Unless they are treated by a veterinarian, these animals are likely to die from their injuries. Fish are no different: A hook through the mouth causes a serious and extremely painful injury that is often fatal without treatment. But anglers just toss injured fish back into the wateroften without realizing what theyve done.
In addition to the wounds that are caused by the hook, fish released after being caught can suffer from loss of their protective scale coating, dangerous build-up of lactic acid in their muscles, oxygen depletion, and damage to their delicate fins and mouths. Upon being returned to the water, these fish are easy targets for predators and other fishers. Researchers at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation found that as many as 43 percent of fish released after being caught died within six days. Catching fish is cruel and unnecessary, whether they are killed on the spot or thrown back into the water, injured and exhausted.
Hooked fish need medical care? People here have kept fish theyve hooked for years...
BELOW IS POSSIBLY TE STUPIDEST THING IVE EVER HEARD.
Wallace jumps into his assignment, quizzing the rental-car guy, Dick, about lobster sentience on the ride from the airport. Dick explains to Wallace, Theres a part of the brain in people and animals that lets us feel pain, and lobsters brains dont have this part. Wallace explains, Besides the fact that its incorrect in about 11 different ways, the main reason Dicks statement is interesting is that its thesis is more or less echoed by the Festivals own pronouncement on lobsters and pain
Wallace looked into the science on lobster pain and reports that lobsters do possess the parts of the brain that feel painboth nocioceptors, as well as invertebrate versions of the prostaglandins and major neurotransmitters found in our own brains.
Beyond having the parts of the brain necessary, lobsters also have very sensitive pain receptors. Wallace states, Lobsters dont have much in the way of eyesight or hearing, but they do have an exquisite tactile sense, one facilitated by hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs that protrude through their carapace. Thus, in the words of T.M. Prudens industry classic About Lobster, it is that although encased in what seems a solid, impenetrable armor, the lobster can receive stimuli and impressions from without as readily as if it possessed a soft and delicate skin.
So lobsters feel more pain because they can't feel it?
