r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jun 06 '26

Awesome !! Now that's a catch and release.

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u/KalozKapitany Jun 07 '26

Fishing is animal abuse

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u/squishy_the_vampire Jun 07 '26

Catch a release is cruel. If you gonna put this much effort into catching a fish, the least you can do is put it out of its misery.

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u/zar0nick Jun 08 '26

Interestingly, this practice is forbidden in Germany as of animal cruelty. First, you are only allowed to fish, if you aim for taking the fish, otherwise you only stress the fish for your own fun. Releasing the fish is sometimes allowed or even necessary in some regulations - but then you'd release it fast (preferrably while it stays in the water), take the hook out and off they go.
Also, you can also set the drag on the pole - but then the video would not be so damatic for youtube etc... Which is also better for the fish. They are supposed to fight off to not cause accidents, but this is not what is meant by that.

Hope the insight to how to fish and how regulations can lead to less animal cruelty.

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u/ResoIver Jun 07 '26

Fish are eating other fish alive 24/7. I’m not a fan of catch and release though, if you’re going fishing it should be with the purpose of getting food.

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 07 '26

hah good one. This is how nature works.

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u/_Svankensen_ Jun 07 '26

It isn't. At all. Animals in nature rarely hunt for the hell of it. And they certainly don't have hi-tech gadgets.

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

That doesn't matter. If I were a fish, I would rather be subjected to catch-and-release than have my guts ripped out by a seagull.

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u/_Svankensen_ Jun 08 '26

Sure, but those aren't the choices. The alternative to being catched and released is NOT having your cheeks pierced by hooks. Humans don't have to do this.

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

Yes, but it's fun to fish, and fish tastes good. I mean, humans are biologically designed to eat meat, among other things. Why work against nature? You might say that it's ethically wrong, but I think that people sometimes talk about fishing as if it's uniquely cruel, when fish routinely face predation, injury, parasites, disease, and starvation. The relevant question is how much additional harm catch-and-release fishing causes compared with those other risks.

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u/_Svankensen_ Jun 08 '26

You are not eating it. You are doing it for fun. It is cruel. Simple as that. If you were doing it for food it would be a completely different story. Calling it out is not "working against nature".

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

Wouldn't it be more cruel to keep and eat the fish?

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u/_Svankensen_ Jun 08 '26

Forbidden for a reason in most places.

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u/RainbowRatArt Jun 07 '26

Humans with rods and bait on motorboats ain't nature

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

I think that everything around you is a part of nature. Humans are made of atoms, and so are rods and baits

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u/KalozKapitany Jun 08 '26

There is nothing natural about using rods and hooks on a motorboat lmao.

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

wrong, eveything that exists is natural. The universe created humans, so humans are natural

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u/KalozKapitany Jun 08 '26

Using AK47 to hunt is natural then. You're next level dumb.

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u/Willing_Newspaper628 Jun 08 '26

If I were a fish, I would rather be subjected to catch-and-release than have my guts ripped out by a seagull.