Fish farming is cruel

For an Aquatic Veterinarian, It’s Never ‘Just a Fish’ (Gift Article) Stress, ovarian cancer, buoyancy disorders: Every pet has its troubles, and needs a good doctor who makes house calls.

The more they struggle, the more entangled they become. 💔

Annually, fishing nets kill or injure over 650,000 marine animals, like dolphins, whales, seals, and turtles. An estimated 640,000 tonnes of discarded fishing nets, known as 'ghost gear', are dumped in our oceans each year, and it can take at least 600 years for them to break down. 😢

We can help protect our oceans and marine animals by choosing plant-based alternatives. 🌱

Leave a 🐟 in the comments if you've ditched fish!

The whole ordeal was incredibly stressful on her and she was in critical condition. Once the gear was removed and medications and fluids administered, she was left to get some much needed rest.

How Many Fish Are Caught Each Year? 🐟 It's Choose Fish-Free week at Veganuary this week, and to round it off with style, here's Andrew answering a question that's been on our minds for years now:...

Today is World Oceans Day! 🌊

It's time to celebrate our oceans! But more than that, today serves as a reminder to consider the importance of protecting them and to prioritize sustainable management of their resources.

That's why working to promote better fishing standards in our oceans, assessing the impact fisheries have on fish welfare 🐟, and identifying the most effective ways to improve conditions for fish across various fisheries is also part of the equation!

And that's the main objective of our Carefish/catch Project! 😉

More about our project?👇
https://carefish.net/catch/

Fair-Fish
Fish Etho Group Association
Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)
Friend of the Sea
DeMoS institute: https://demos-institute.org/

Fish are 🐟

We don't hear fish scream, but their pain is VERY real.

Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.

Do Fish Feel Pain? Striking new evidence says yes Some of the leading scientists in the field explain how they showed that fish feel pain. From the discovery of pain receptors in the early 21st century to fi...

The pig that can do jigsaws (and other amazing stories) Without question, pigs are the brain boxes of the farmyard, far brighter than horses, cows or chickens. But which species wins when it comes to smarts? The Mail takes a look at the contenders...

"Imagine how that must feel in a mouth."

Hazel Preston sent us this photo, explaining:
"Taking a walk at Lake Frank recently, I found this fish hook had become embedded in my shoe. It wasn't until I got home could I cut it with a pair of tinsnips to remove it.
Imagine how that must feel in a mouth."

Indeed! We're glad it didn't end up in a fish's mouth or Hazel's foot.
Fishing is harmful in so many ways. It isn't sport, it's cruelty.

Thank you, Hazel!

From Fish Feel

"This 50 second video includes some terrible images but also true words by Marco Vindas, professor of life sciences, who studies emotional and cognitive responses of fishes:"

Marco Vindas on Pain in Fish - Deep Sea Reporter Marco Vindas is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.He conducts research on the neural control of behavior and physiology in fish. He wants to understand emotional and cognitive responses of fish in response to environmental stimuli. Much of his research is focused to...

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Mushy fish syndrome, the catch no angler wants to hook, becoming more 'prominent' in NSW It turns fish flesh into mush, is difficult to detect, and there are fears the parasite is moving further south in New South Wales waters.

The End of the Line: The Destruction of our Seas Documentary filmmaker Rupert Murray examines the devastating effect that overfishing has had on the world's fish populations and argues that drastic action m...

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Starvation has decimated gray whales off the Pacific Coast. Can the giants ever recover? Researchers suspect that starvation may have killed half off all gray whales off the Pacific Coast of North America. What happened to their food source?

Words copied and pasted from Fish Feel

""A recent study delved into the reasoning behind 10 pescatarians’ dietary choices" *

The author of this article considers the paradox of non-vegans: "the conflict between liking or even loving animals, while at the same time endorsing [industries] that intrinsically depends on their suffering and death."

She presciently notes that their "excuses have traditionally been summarized as the 'Four Ns' – the name stands for Natural, Normal, Necessary, and Nice – and if you want to see examples of them, just take a look at the comments section right now."

She considers "three main ways pescatarians [try to] justify their dietary ethics," and explains: "At the core of all of these conundrums is ... cognitive dissonance: the oh-so-human ability to hold two conflicting beliefs at the same time, and the psychological discomfort that this provokes. So, let’s say you’re an animal lover – but you also eat meat. Well, there’s no getting around it: you want animals to die. Every time you eat a BLT, for example, you’re enjoying the fact that somebody killed a pig. So how can you say you love animals?"

* Thanks to Jamie Woodhouse (Sentientism) for sharing this with us: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780887.2024.2328037

And thanks to Kati Ti for sharing this with us. Takes comments:
https://www.iflscience.com/eat-fish-but-not-meat-youre-probably-suffering-from-the-pescatarians-paradox-73512

Eat Fish But Not Meat? You're Probably Suffering From The Pescatarian's Paradox There's some pretty fishy logic going on here.

Fish Can Sense Each Other's Fear And Become Afraid Too, Shows Study The study is being considered important as it suggest that empathy may have a longer evolutionary history than previously thought.

The amount of food poisoning that is caused by eating dead animal flesh is... well, NOT surprising. It's already begun decomposing, whatever you try to do to prolong the illusion it isn't.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/listeria-fears-matakana-smokehouse-salmon-batches-recalled/TW4NT5V33NG4PGTJM5WGKYC5V4/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3MfhKmyZZp0wS8PFZXhdjkc3iKaaPWmMyN_vZqDZC25jfSsgiH6G50gEc&mibextid=NOb6eG =1711690106

Salmon batches recalled due to listeria risk People who have bought the Matakana Smokehouse products can take them back for a refund.

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Fish not only feel fear — they can sense when their friends are afraid too.

Whether we have feet or fins, we all want the same basic things — safety, respect, freedom.💙🐠

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Animal agriculture is a far cry from the lush farm landscapes and happy animals the industry often markets to us.

We Animals photojournalist Ram Daya visited several Arizona industrial farms in the late summer of 2023 to document the state’s expanding animal agriculture industry.

“My normal approach to assignments is to be very physically close to who or what I’m photographing. But to show the scale of the cattle and dairy industry in Arizona, it had to be done from the air. To see a calf born and immediately taken from their mother, to watch the carcass of a dead cow dumped unceremoniously next to others; these actions would be invisible from anywhere but a bird’s eye view or through deep investigative work. And that’s why these investigations are important—they make the unseen seen.”
― Ram Daya, animal photojournalist

McElhaney Feedyard is a 141-hectare (350-acre) feedlot in Wellton, Arizona and holds up to 115,000 cattle. It is owned by Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, LLC, the self proclaimed largest cattle feeder in the world. The enterprise owns 13 feedlots in six different US states, which can house 865,000 cattle at any time between them.

Though shade structures are provided, cattle are at high risk for heat stress in the Arizona climate. As heat waves driven by climate change become more common, farmed animals are at higher risk for death due to heat-related causes.

📷: The decomposing bodies of dead cattle, who appear to be dairy breeds, lie piled inside a trailer in the yard of a feedlot. Bodily fluid from the dead animals has leaked from the trailer and spread across the ground. This particular facility holds up to 115,000 cattle. McElhaney Feedyard, Wellton, Arizona, USA, 2023. Ram Daya / We Animals Media

Kmart called out for 'cruel' fish tank: ‘Animals are not toys' Kmart is under fire for selling a small 3-litre fish tank it says is 'suitable for betta fish' with many calling it 'animal cruelty'. Find out why.

Fish Feel Pain, Science Shows — But Humans Are Reluctant To Believe It The research that fish feel pain, explained.

TikToker Films Nightmare Parasitic Worm in Costco Salmon Ew.