• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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      31 minutes ago

      It never made sense to me that “fish don’t feel pain”. Like, even as a kid I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t. Who would be okay with a metal hook through their mouth? Even if they didn’t feel the same kind of pain we do (I’m sure they do), there’s got to be some part of their body screaming that things aren’t okay. Add on top of that the sudden inability to breathe and it really is just torture.

      I like the idea of fishing (like relaxing on a boat with a goal) but I couldn’t do it

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure a lot of people legitimately do not see fish as more than objects, and I mean they never fully made the connection not that they do it intentionally.

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          34 minutes ago

          Noodling is basically cat fish hunting by allowing the catfish to bit onto your arm and you lift it out of the water onto the shore.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        12 hours ago

        Probably worse, unless they are less likely to pull the fish up to begin with unless being kept? I doubt the hook is anywhere near as traumatic as the rest of the process.