 |
 |
Is it possible that the fish were anaethsetised not to avoid pain but to make them docile enough to enable the handlers to 'check them top to bottom'. Examining a live salmon would othewise involve an energetic amount of slippery juggling. Regards PK >According to fish health technicians fish feel pain. I think that is why people take up the sport of fishing anyway. They like the 'action' of the fighting fish. If fish were unable to feel pain, then why would they fight against the 'barbless hook'? > >Ethically then I agree there is no 'obligation' to eliminate pain in fish. It >all depends on what is desired, and believed by the fisher, or the consumer. I >agree that it is a duty though to reduce suffering in fish where possible. >This seems to be a good practice, because good habits are hard to break. Bad >ones are also hard to break. BB. John Foster > >"Fish health technicians give the farmed salmon an anesthetic so they can be >checked from top to bottom. The number of lice, the species, and maturity >are recorded. Water in the testing box which temporarily held the fish goes >through a sieve to collect any lice that may have fallen off." > >The Farmed Fish Affray: the best-laid plans of men fall foul of microscopic >lice. Carla Wilson >Times Colonist. Sunday, June 01, 2003 > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><STRONG><FONT size=3>According >to fish health technicians fish feel pain. I think that is why >people >take up the sport of fishing anyway. They like the 'action' of the fighting >fish. If fish were unable to feel pain, then why would they fight against the >'barbless hook'?</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV> ><DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> ><DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Ethically then I agree there is no >'obligation' to eliminate pain in fish. It all depends on what is desired, and >believed by the fisher, or the consumer. I agree that it is a duty though to >reduce suffering in fish where possible. This seems to be a good practice, >because good habits are hard to break. Bad ones are also hard to break. BB. >John >Foster</FONT></STRONG></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"Fish health >technicians give the farmed salmon an anesthetic so they can be<BR>checked >from >top to bottom. The number of lice, the species, and maturity<BR>are recorded. >Water in the testing box which temporarily held the fish goes<BR>through a >sieve >to collect any lice that may have fallen off." </FONT></FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" >size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The Farmed >Fish >Affray: the best-laid plans of men fall foul of microscopic lice. Carla >Wilson<BR>Times Colonist. Sunday, June 01, >2003<BR></FONT><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>