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Fighting to Stop Cruelty to Fish in the UK.
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For every angler You persuade to stop fishing - YOU will have Saved Hundreds of Fish from needless suffering every year.

Angling Sabs - Ban Fishing Now - link to home page
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PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals see there site and campaigns against the cruelty of angling. More links below
Now that Hunting is to End the Same Rules Must be Applied to Angling. BAN Angling NOW.
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Campaigns

Angling is the Cruellest and Must Be Banned Now - there are No Arguments to defend the angling scum and their cruelty. See below and See Sadistic Anglers and Fish Feel Pain

Campaigning to end bloodsports has been a long haul! But the writing is on the wall for them all and their Bans will come. Our aim is to get angling banned as quickly as possible and supporting the hunting bill is part of that. (See why in the members area - register now). The Government has dismissed the pro-hunt scum's arguments, which is an important step in getting angling banned. It has established the Tests and All blood sports must be measured against these in future. Angling fails them and Must Be Banned - with a little help from you, the public will soon demand it.

Compare Angling with Hunting in your local campaigns to show the public the senseless cruelty of the angling scum. The time will come when you can demand the Angling Ban based on this (see members area).
Angling is Far Worse than Hunting
On the left are the arguments which failed to save hunting and on the right is the comparison with angling - Compare them in your letters and local campaigns.
Hunting
Angling
Foxes are a pest whose numbers need controlling Fish are not a pest - numbers do not need controlling. If a water has too many fish then electro-fishing, to painlessly stun and relocate them, is used by the Environment Agency.
Foxes kill thousands of lambs each year as well as poultry and ground nesting birds. Fish swim about minding their own business causing no harm to mankind.
Foxes carry mange and other diseases which infect domestic pets and humans Fish swim about minding their own business causing no harm to mankind or their pets.
Hunting either kills the fox or it escapes unharmed Fish are hooked in agony, tortured for up to an hour, hooks ripped out with pliers causing dreadful injuries to mouth or gills, starved of oxygen and then released to be hooked and tortured all over again.
Death occurs in seconds and is painless Death is slow and long drawn out in absolute agony while the fish struggles to escape. Fish which will be eaten are 'played' on the end of a hook for up to an hour before eventually being clubbed to death. Inedible Fish after being hooked, tortured, injured and eventually returned to the water frequently die hours or days later. The Angling press frequently has comments on this.
Hunting conserves the countryside and the fox population Angling brings litter to the river bank and lakeside. Poisons swans, ducks and other waterfowl with lead weights. Kills swans, ducks and other waterfowl through being tangled in discarded line or swallowing viciously barbed hooks dropped by anglers.Lakes are polluted by 'ground bait' - huge quantities of food designed to attract fish to the angler's bait.
Hunting improves the species by weeding out the old, sick and injured animals Angling tortures and then sets fish loose to be caught again and again. It does nothing to improve the species or remove old and sick fish. It does create dead waters with only a single fish type such as carp in lakes - destroying diversity of species.
If hunting is banned thousands of horses and hounds will have to be killed. If angling is banned not one animal will have to be put down, but millions of fish will be saved from unspeakable cruelty and suffering; thousands of wild birds will be saved from agonising deaths through fishing line and hooks.
Villages and whole sections of the countryside rely on hunting for their income and their social life. Angling is a cruel sport and no town, village or countryside area has an economy based upon it. Fishing has no social life attached to it.
If hunting is banned more foxes will be killed in far more cruel ways When Angling is banned fish will no longer be tortured and needlessly killed saving millions of fish from needless cruelty each year.
Around 1 million people are involved in hunting - you can't ban it. 3 million people involved in torturing millions of fish every year is many, many times worse than the cruelty inflicted on animals by hunting. The number of people involved in senseless acts of cruelty of this kind only make it so many times worse and more urgent to stop.
Hunting is a way of life which teaches respect for the countryside and its wildlife Angling is a 'sport' which relies on inflicting pain, suffering and cruelty upon harmless fish. It makes young people believe that inflicting senseless cruelty on a helpless animal is a 'fun' way to pass their time.
Foxes are a wild animal which no longer has any other control on its numbers other than man. Fish are specially bred and reared to be put in lakes purely to provide the sadists who fish with the pleasure of catching and torturing the fish time and time again until the fish dies.
Arguments used to try and keep hunting from a ban failed. Angling fails every time when measured against these arguments from the pro-hunters. That is why when the Hunting Bill is passed a Bill to Ban Angling can come forwards.

Your Local Campaigns
Acting Locally, You can be Very Effective and Save Thousands of Fish from suffering.

Firstly - try and join a local group (register here to be put in touch) or Talk to like-minded people and get them together for your own local group.
Then you can begin to Campaign for Local Angling Bans, Persuade Children not to Fish and tell the Public about Angling Cruelty to help the Government bring in the Angling Ban quickly.

Below are some of the activities you can carry out. They are in detail in the Action Now section.If you think of new ways then let us know.

On the left of this page you will find a comparison which shows why, as New Labour is Banning Hunting because of Cruelty, there is No Choice but to Ban Angling. Use this in Local Campaigns.

Local Campaigns .
With your local group, either joining an existing one or forming a new one, plan out Local Campaigns and activities. These will aim to get Local Bans and support the national Ban Angling campaign as it rolls out in due course.
Local Campaigns Should have:

  • Clear Aims
  • Clear Targets
  • Simple Action Plans

and Simple planning will ensure success.

Clear Aims To :

  • Get Angling Banned on Local waters
  • Get the Public to Realise Angling's Cruelty and the sadistic pleasure of anglers - compare it to hunting and point outthe reasons why hunting is now being banned are nowhere near as great as the reasons why angling must be Banned Now.
  • Highlight the environmental damage caused by angling
  • Persuade Children Not to Fish and to give up angling
  • Get Projects running in schools as part of the National Curriculum to show children how cruel angling is
  • Recruit new people to campaign with you - look for sympathetic teachers, local councillors and others who carry influence and will help. Hunt Sabs and other animal welfare oampaigners are already active now they are not needed for hunting.

Clear Targets :

  • Research and choose 2 or 3 local waters to get an Angling Ban on
  • Choose local schools where teachers will be sympathetic to 'angling' projects in class
  • Two or three letters against angling each month in you local newspaper - make sure they get replied to...
  • Identify Local Councillors to get on side
  • Visit local rivers and lakes to find out which are most used by children so that you can target them for leaflets etc
  • Local Angling clubs - target their competitions for sabbing and protests
  • Local tackle shops - target for protests
  • Local MP

Simple Action Plans

  • With you group plan who is going to do what, look at what each is best at or has most time to do. For example get a teacher to approach other teachers about projects in class.
  • Plan for each part of your local campaign carefully, making sure that everyone knows what they are going to do
  • Monitor how you get on and let us know what you are doing and achieving
  • Keep things simple and clear for all involved.

Your actions will save countless thousands of fish from torment and angling at the hands of the angling scum.
Use the Links below to find out more about what You can Do - to End Angling Cruelty Now.
Angling Sabs - Ban Fishing Now - link to home page Links to Campaign Sites Directory of Animal rights and anti-bloodpsorts web sites. Sab angling Safely - link to the Members page Sabbing Angling Sabbing Angling - what you need to know
Action Now what you can do to speed up the angling ban Campaigns Campaigns to end angling cruelty - what you can do.
Sadistic Anglers Repeatedly harming fish and causing unnecessary suffering Contact Contact Us
Fish Feel Pain Fish feel pain - research proves. Join Us Join Us and receive a regular newsletter
The Angling Ban is Coming - You Can Speed it.

Ban One - they All Fall.

We must All step up our Activity Now

  • Keep the pressure on the Government.
  • Educate the public about angling cruelty
  • Persuade Anglers to stop fishing.
  • Show Children how cruel angling is.
  • Get the message into more classrooms. (Find out what You can do in the Campaigns section)
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