5 Reasons Not to Eat Fish
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Jim Robertson, Exposing the Big Game
June 2014

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seals eat fish
Image from Jim Robertson, Animals in the Wild

5. Seals and sea lions are scapegoated and shot by commercial fishermen and their lackeys who blame the marine mammals for dwindling fish populations. It’s the same “all here for us” mentality that ranchers and trophy hunters use to justify killing wolves.

cormorant birds eat fish
Art by Barry Kent MacKay

4. Cormorants are culled by the thousands, by both commercial and sport fishing interests unwilling to share “their” resources. Last April, sport fishermen in South Carolina shot over 11,000 cormorants for the crime of eating fish; and the U.S. Government is currently planning $1.5 million-a-year program that would arm federal trappers with silenced rifles and night-vision scopes to shoot thousands of Columbia River cormorants during their nesting season.

fish carbon oceans

3. Live fish sequester carbon. The sea absorbs about half of the billions of tons of CO2 humans produce…, but only if there’s plenty of phytoplankton, fish and other organisms living in it.

bycatch overfishing

2. Bykill, including pelagic sea birds, turtles, marine mammals, and non-target fish species, accounts for 50% or more of some fisheries’ take. Many fisheries around the world throw away more fish than they keep.

fish sentience

1. Fish are sentient beings too, no less deserving of compassion than any other species humans claim as their food. Flying in the face of what is considered popular opinion, fish have good memories, build complicated structures and show behaviour seen in primates – as well as feel pain like any other vertebrates.

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