NOAAFisheries , ASEAN , European Parliament : Ban Fishing
- von: Chrissy H.
- empfänger: NOAAFisheries ,NEAFC,NAFO;NASCO,SEAFO;SIOFA;ICCAT;European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, BMEL,
Commercial fishing is cruelty to animals on a colossal scale, killing hundreds of billions of animals worldwide every year—far more than any other industry.
Regardless of the method used to catch them, if the fish are still alive at the end of their terrifying journey to the surface, their gills are cut and they're left to bleed out or tossed onto ice to slowly freeze or suffocate—a horribly cruel and painful death for coldblooded animals, who can take a very long time to die this way.
Anglers may not want to think about it, but fishing is nothing more than a cruel blood sport. When fish are impaled on an angler's hook and yanked out of the water, it's not a game to them. They are scared, in pain, and fighting for their lives.
Numerous studies in recent years have demonstrated that fish feel and react to pain.
A study in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that fish who are exposed to painful heat later show signs of fear and wariness—illustrating that fish both experience pain and can remember it.
A study by scientists at Queen's University Belfast proved that fish learn to avoid pain, just like other animals. Rebecca Dunlop, one of the researchers, said, "This paper shows that pain avoidance in fish doesn't seem to be a reflex response, rather one that is learned, remembered and is changed according to different circumstances. Therefore, if fish can perceive pain, then angling cannot continue to be considered a non-cruel sport."
Sea turtles, birds, seals, whales, sharks, and other "nontarget" fish who get tangled in nets and hooked by longlines are considered "bycatch" and thrown overboard. They fall victim to swarming birds or slowly bleed to death in the water.
Scientists estimate that more than 650,000 marine mammals—dolphins, whales, and porpoises—are seriously injured or killed every year by the commercial fishing industry.
The most important health risks associated with fish meat include microplastics, worms, mercury, antibiotics and ethoxyquin.
ADD YOUR VOICE : SUPPORT A GLOBAL FISHING BAN
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What You Can Do
-Please dont eat fish- Fish are friends, not food. Science has repeatedly shown us what common sense already tells us: fish feel pain and can suffer.
Check out these delicious vegan recipes :
Visit http://chooseveg.com/blog/saving-nemo-6-savory-vegan-seafood-recipes/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/how-to-make-vegan-seafood-dishes-without-the-fish/
-inform people
- To combat fishing in your area, post "No Fishing" signs on your land if you have a pond or a lake, join or form an anti-fishing organization, and protest fishing tournaments. Encourage your legislators to enact or enforce wildlife-protection laws.
BACKGROUND:
Long Lines
Large ships release into the sea baited hooks connected to lines that could be as long as 75 miles. Attracted to the bait, various sea animals get caught on the hooks and very often bleed or drown to death or they struggle until they are reeled in, which could be many hours of torture. And it isn't just fish that take the bait – birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other creatures too do.
Gill Nets
These nets form a sort of vertical wall in the sea, with weights at the bottom, and floats at the top to keep them in place. The fish get stuck in these and either suffocate, bleed or struggle to death. Those that survive the ordeal are killed on the deck of the ship.
Purse Seines
These are large nets that are designed principally for trapping tuna. Since tuna typically hang out with dolphins, it is large groups of dolphin that are tracked and then the net closes around large groups of tuna, and reels in the fish which are almost always alive when they reach the ship deck to have their gills slit and their innards disemboweled.
The Bottom Trawlers
Huge bag shaped nets crawl along the ocean floor pulling not just sea animals but also coral, rock and other parts of the oceans ecosystem into the nets. This sort of fishing method doesn't just exemplify the cruelty of fishing but is also bad for the ecosystem that it has been called the deep sea equivalent of razing land forests to the ground.
Fish don't audibly scream when they're impaled on hooks or grimace when the hooks are ripped from their mouths, but their behavior offers evidence of their suffering—if we're willing to look. For example, when Braithwaite and her colleagues exposed fish to irritating chemicals, the animals behaved as any of us might: They lost their appetite, their gills beat faster, and they rubbed the affected areas against the side of the tank.
A study in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that fish who are exposed to painful heat later show signs of fear and wariness—illustrating that fish both experience pain and can remember it.
Links:
https://www.peta.de/so-schaedlich-ist-fischkonsum-fuer-die-gesundheit
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/fish/fish-feel-pain/
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/8-reasons-eating-fish-is-worse-than-you-thought
https://mercyforanimals.org/heres-how-eating-fish-is-killing-our-oceans
http://ourfoodprint.com/learn/fish-factory-farms
here some ideas -How to Make Vegan Seafood Dishes Without the Fish http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/how-to-make-vegan-seafood-dishes-without-the-fish/
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