Letters page of the Peterborough evening telegraph Wednesday, september 4
I had the considerable displeasure of witnessing an act of great cruelty on a visit to a popular fishing spot, quite near the evening telegraph offices, at the weekend.
A group of people were engaged in a fishing contest.
I could not believe that this, in my opinon, hideous and grotesquely cruel practise is still permitted under british law.
The poor fish were being dragged through the water with an evil, barbed hook in there mouths, and then having cold-blooded flesh scalded by being handled by warm-blooded men, and unbelievably women also.
These poor creature were left crammed suffocating in a net until the end of the competition, when they were handled again for weighing.
Now that we are hopefully close to a ban on hunting with dogs in this country, I am sure we must ban this, in my opinion, evil practice as soon as possible.
I shall be returning to the area at the end of the month, and will be looking for people who will support a ban on fishing.
THERESA THOM
by e-mail.
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