riverman wrote:
No, we don't care about Sarah Fox
PhD or her solution. We don't really care if fish feel pain, because we
pretty universally conclude that they don't, for the sake of our
'sport'.

Even you didn't conclude that, or at least you didn't explain your
reasoning. You gave no information to support the view that fish can't
suffer, and you came to no reasoned conclusion one way or the other
based on the information that's available. Think there's not enough
information available? Fine, I won't argue with you, but doesn't that
mean that you don't know whether fish feel pain? You mainly emphasized
the fact that Sarah Fox used some less than definitive terms. But I do
agree that you might be supporting the "fish feel no pain" side for the
sake of your sport.


The solution that Sarah Fox PhD proposes (using an ice chest to
cold-anesthetize them) is so impractical to us as to be gaggingly
idiotic, and your insistence that we keep "Listening to youuuuuuuu" is
similarly idioticly gagging. Go home now.

You wouldn't need to keep listening to me if you heard me to begin
with. Nobody said that an ice chest is practical for people standing in
the water or people who catch and release. I've explained that several
times already. (I'm thinking "floating ice chest" but I won't say
anything...)

Oh, and for the edification of all of us, I'd love to know where and
how you came across that article in the first place that so inspired
you to repost it in several newsgroups.

I don't remember, but I don't think I got it from the website you
referred to (but didn't specify). It was only in Google's cache of some
page when I read it.