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What? Have you ever gone fishing? Even when fishing for food, I guarantee you will likely catch a fish or two that are deemed "illegal" to catch and have to be returned to the water. Should ALL fishermen be charged with animal cruelty?
I know a couple of fishermen. Yes, they fish for sport...and then eat the fish. Which is something a little big different than torturing an animal for nothing more than "fun".
The only Derp on the guy is he should have kept it for the grill. Shark is my favorite and of those it's a toss up between Mako and Thresher. Noodling for fish is fun but I ain't noodlin for Sharks.
I know a couple of fishermen. Yes, they fish for sport...and then eat the fish. Which is something a little big different than torturing an animal for nothing more than "fun".
Umm...fishing for sport and fishing to harvest the fish are mutually exclusive. You can't do both at the same time. Either you're going to catch n release or you're going to catch n eat. You can't do both.
Get your panties out of their wad. The shark is fine. I'm sure it has no recollection of what happened to it. Probably just thought a bigger fish was trying to eat him and actually learned a good lesson in nature.
Umm...fishing for sport and fishing to harvest the fish are mutually exclusive. You can't do both at the same time. Either you're going to catch n release or you're going to catch n eat. You can't do both.
Um! You absolutely can fish for sport and be keeping fish for the table as well! So yes, you can do both at the same time. Sport fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry in the US alone. Much of it is spent sportfishing to at least try to put something back on the table.
One may enter a sportfishing tournament (For example a marlin tournament) where most fish are being released but if you think one you have will make the minimum weight and get you on the leader board then the true end goal for that particular sportfishing tournament is to kill it and bring it back!
You may be targeting multiple species with the intent to release some types but box others. Such is the case offshore fishing targeting marlin and tuna where the marlin may be released but the tuna get boxed.
Or there may be size/slot limits in which case a vast majority of the fish are being released but if one is in the legal limits, it goes in the box. Such may be the case with rockfish, red drum and bluefin tuna.
One may go shark fishing for makos and intend to keep his one per boat limit if he feels it will hit 100lbs or so. Might take that first thing in the morning and continue catching and releasing for the rest of the day.
There are many other examples but basically recreational fishing is sport fishing. Some keep their catch. Some release. some do both!
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I know a couple of fishermen. Yes, they fish for sport...and then eat the fish. Which is something a little big different than torturing an animal for nothing more than "fun".
I make a living "torturing" animals just for fun. The more they jump, the more fun I have! The fish will be fine. I've released the stupid creatures only to see them turn right back afterwards and eat another bait and get caught again.
I remember an overnight tuna trip with a shark right by the boat. it literally ate most of our hook baits as they went in the water. It would get hooked then bite through after a few moments or would just break off as we clamped down on it. Stupid animal must have had a dozen hooks in it's mouth. Yes, we could see them fine. Yep, that thing was sure being bothered.
People will never learn. Leave the wildlife alone for crying out loud.
Well said, and they probably would have blamed the shark if he did attack or retaliate.
after watching the video, it was really cruel the way he dragged that animal out of the water, the shark was clearly terrified. There needs to be animal cruelty charges for this behavior.
Well, it's not too surprising on the scale of things.
This has probably been a common event for decades underwater: http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xd/179...E8356829A9C9D9
Find a puffer fish, make him "blow up", for the entertainment of the humans. The thing that a lot of people don't appreciate is that for the puffer fish, this isn't his chance to show off for the humans. He's SCARED and doing it in defense of his life.
These kind of lessons, however, are often not known by most people. I think I first learned of it as a child reading in a "Ranger Rick" magazine but the lesson was really nailed home in only the last decade or so. Perhaps I learned it, appreciated it when I was doing pollution studies with fish where stress is measured by the stress hormones introduced into their blood. (ie, no thank you to those who think stress is only a therapy issue)
Terrible that he did this? Probably so but this is really only the tip of the iceberg.
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The more they jump, the more fun I have! The fish will be fine. I've released the stupid creatures only to see them turn right back afterwards and eat another bait and get caught again.
