Hunting, shooting and fishing poll

[lutra]

You can end up opening a real can of worms when it comes to issues of hunting. It's totally different because importantly, we don't fill the fish with bullet holes and when you put them back, they're generally alive.

Maybe if we shot fish as well anti's wouldn't keep trying to tell us fish can feel pain.

Edited June 11, 2009 by lutra

[Anderoo]

I wish I'd never started this, and have asked Newt to close it

 

Thanks for everyone's input.

[andy_youngs]

I wish I'd never started this, and have asked Newt to close it

unfortunately, I've found he tends open things when you want them closed, and closes things when you when you want them opened. I guess a moderaters job is never easy.

I shoot & fish. I haven't hunted fox on horseback, but I haven't got a problem with it either ... if that's what people want to do then that's just fine by me.

I've hunted deer with a high powered rifle. Sika deer in the US and red deer in Scotland. Everything was eaten so no probs I think.

[GARYB]

EACH TO HIS OWN!!!!!!

[tiddlertamer]

I wish I'd never started this, and have asked Newt to close it

 

Thanks for everyone's input.

 

Anderoo

 

I hate the following to be done to you twice in the space of a couple of days.

 

But clearly some sort of action is needed to bring this discussion to an end.

 

Mornington Crescent.

Edited June 14, 2009 by tiddlertamer

[Anderoo]

Anderoo

 

I hate the following to be done to you twice in the space of a couple of days.

 

But clearly some sort of action is needed to bring this discussion to an end.

 

Mornington Crescent.

 

 

It just won't die!

[Vagabond]

Everything was eaten so no probs I think.

Yeah, shoot a deer and eat it - no probs

 

Catch a perch and eat it - and you are now (from 2010) breaking the EA "laws"

 

That will backfire on UK angling sooner or later - in the eyes of the chattering classes, catching and eating fish is OK, catching fish just to put them back is pointless.

[Worms]

Yeah, shoot a deer and eat it - no probs

 

Catch a perch and eat it - and you are now (from 2010) breaking the EA "laws"

 

That will backfire on UK angling sooner or later - in the eyes of the chattering classes, catching and eating fish is OK, catching fish just to put them back is pointless.

Just a reflection on today's 'ban common-sense' society unfortunately...

 

With hours and hours a week (and millions of corporate pounds) of media advertising forcing the children and yoof of the country to cram 'Mc-Bucket' meals made from processed battery farmed animals down their throats, yet criminalising people who catch and humanely dispatch one meal-worth from a sustainable wild source

 

Look on the bright side though Dave, it's still perfectly legal to go and catch a shoal of undersize fish to take home...not quite as sustainable, more waste but totally legitimate so it must be right!

[Emma two]

I like to eat perch and will continue to do so, that said most that I catch are returned.

 

I can't imagine getting 'caught' our EA water bailiffs are of the same opinion.

 

If some unpholder of the law (who?) wated to search my gear/boat and found a dead perch I would say, 'badly hooke, knocked it on the head'. They may not believe it but would I be taken to court and prosicuted? can you imagine the CPS giving it a high priority and significntly being sure to obtain a conviction? A trail would be a bit of a day out actually, I would conduct my own defense and base it around the daftness and 'ungreen' of throwning dead fish into a watercourse.

 

Laws? 'Don't panic and carry on as normal'.

[Sportsman]

This thread prompted me to ask a couple of non-fishing, non-shooting female friends their opinion on the comparative cruelty of field sports, as they saw it.

 

They both disliked hunting with hounds but couldn't really say why.

 

They both agreed that shooting something was fine as long as you are going to eat it.

 

They both thought that catching fish was fine, as long as they are going to be eaten.

 

They both thought that catching fish just for amusement with no intention of eating it was unnecessary and cruel, on a par with hunting with hounds.

 

They were astonished to hear that in UK catch and release is a legal requirement.

The comment from one was "what ar5ehole thought that one up"

 

Doesn't prove anything either way but these are level headed un-biased members of the public. I wonder how many more would feel the same way if asked.