Comment from Lopez, Victoria
Victoria LopezOpposeIndividual
Summary: An individual is opposing the fishery management plan on the grounds of animal welfare and sentience. They argue that fishing is cruel and causes unnecessary pain to fish, requesting that the government protect these species instead of allowing them to be harvested.
Please stop killing the poor fish and leave them in peace. People don't need to eat fish, so please leave them alone. Please protect the fish instead, and do not torture and/or kill the fish anymore. Fishing does cause pain for fish. Recent studies reflect this discovery of fish actually experiencing pain. So, it would make sense that fish feel pain when being pierced with a hook or dying of asphyxia when taken out of the water. It's just cruel. Please check out the links below. All this killing is unnecessary, so please put an end to it. Fishing already inflicts massive pain on the fish species as is along with also harming/killing many Marine Mammals to top it off. Please protect all the Rainbow Runners, the Crevalle Jacks, the African Pompanos, the Pelagic Fish, the Rays, and the Reef Fish out there, because they are all precious and beautiful and they deserve protection just as other animals do.
Links:
https://sentientmedia.org/do-fish-feel-pain/
https://sentientmedia.org/wild-fish-welfare/