Comment from Lopez, Victoria
Victoria LopezSupportIndividual
Summary: An individual is urging the agency to protect anadromous fish species from fishing and other human activities. They argue that fishing is cruel because fish experience pain and that these species deserve protection for their own sake.
Please do your best to protect all the Anadromous Fish from destruction. 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 link 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 fall-run Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, fall-run Chum Salmon, the Puget Sound Steelheads, and the Puget Sound Chinook Salmon, because they are all precious and beautiful and they deserve protection just as other animals do.
Link:
https://sentientmedia.org/do-fish-feel-pain/