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'Play'
for as long as possible This means keeping a fish
on the hook for as long as possible while the fish tries desperately
to escape. Eventually when it is completely exhausted and
floating lifeless on the surface it will be hauled out of
the water.
Injury
to Injustice. Then the exhausted fish will be held
while hooks are wrenched out with a pair of pliers causing
extreme damage to delicate mouth and gills. Its slime and
scales rubbed off in the process leaving its body defenceless
against bacteria and fungal infections. Fish are then, at
some time put back free to be caught again but half dead,
with damaged mouths and not able to eat properly.
Live
Baiting.
This
is where anglers use a small fish as a live bait for a bigger
fish. Using a needle the line will be threaded through the
live fish, often through or close to its eyes. Then it is
cast out with hooks attached to it, or in it, to swim about,
in absolute agony, in the hope that it will attract a bigger
fish to eat it. Just so the angler can catch a big fish. Not
even the hunt scum thread lines through live chickens to use
as bait for foxes. Anglers are sadists and have to be stopped.
Trophies.
A fish is caught and then kept out of water for
too long gasping for breath just so the 'angler' can take
a picture of it as a trophy. Have a look at some of these
in angling magazines or web sites.
Dying
to have their picture taken! Countless fish are
injured by this practice as anglers hold them in ways which
stretch their bodies in unnatural positions and internal organs
are moved out of place, unsupported by water. Small wonder
that so many fish later die.
Asphyxiated.
Countless thousands of fish are killed each day by anglers
through complete disregard and lack of care and just for that
Trophy picture. New Zealand fishery research has proven that
Fish kept out of water for more than 60 seconds will die later
as their bodies can never make up the oxygen deficit.
Anglers
who get banned. People supervising some fisheries
will ban anglers who strike to hard - not because it hurts
the fish more but because it causes such damage to the fish's
mouth it will later die and have to be replaced by the fishery
buying another fish. Its just not financially efficient.
Keep
Nets. These are long and thin nets that many anglers
use to keep the fish they catch until the end of the day.
They are so small that fish cannot swim about. Many die and
others have slime and scale rubbed off on the mesh, meaning
they will die later from bacterial or fungal infection. Why
do they do this? Simple - it's so that at the end of the day
they have another chance to gloat over the fish they tortured
earlier. Often they will tip all of the fish out on the bank
and weight them one by one before putting them back in the
water. The first may survive the later ones usually die.
There
are too many other cruel practices which anglers
enjoy to mention on this page. We will add another section
later.
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