11-11-2014, 07:15 PM
Generally speaking, fish do not physiologically have the pain feeling "structures" found in higher animals. This is believed to prevent them from "feeling" pain like birds and mammals. They, no doubt, feel negative stimuli - thus their desire to flee when hooked but its not thought of as pain as we feel it. Along that same vein, if fish felt pain like we feel pain, then they would certainly eat fewer crawdads and spiny fish. [
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As for catch and keep; I, like many have stated, prefer to bleed them out immediately as I feel it keeps the meat better by not having blood flush the tissues with lactic acid and other toxins (TubeDude wrote of this in another thread). My own aesthetic also prefers to kill them immediately when possible.
Good on you for thinking larger than yourself and about what impact your actions have on the larger world.
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]As for catch and keep; I, like many have stated, prefer to bleed them out immediately as I feel it keeps the meat better by not having blood flush the tissues with lactic acid and other toxins (TubeDude wrote of this in another thread). My own aesthetic also prefers to kill them immediately when possible.
Good on you for thinking larger than yourself and about what impact your actions have on the larger world.
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