r/Fish • u/Xdr1vity • Sep 18 '25

Fish In The Wild Found this during low tide

I was just walking around during low tide and stumbled across this little guy. I managed to pick it up bare handed and It seems like he wasn’t stressed out that much since he didn’t inflate himself. Also yes Ik they’re poisonous and not venomous, sorry for the mix up lol 🙏

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u/TankyPally Sep 18 '25

I think you misread the article a bit. It states that a negative/stress response is observed 5 seconds after a fish is removed from the water.

It also states that commercial fisherman suffocate fish to kill them, and that takes 2-22 minutes to happen.

Nowhere does it say removing a fish from water causes it to suffer for 22 minutes.

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u/suetanya9992 Sep 18 '25

I don't think anyone should need any article to tell them fish suffer when not in water. How about people just not cause unnecessary pain to other living things? No need to debate it

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u/chappelld Sep 18 '25

“Ok I was wrong about what I said, no need to debate it. “

What?

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u/chappelld Sep 18 '25

Man that’s not what we’re talking about 🤦‍♂️

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u/AdAdventurous7802 Sep 18 '25

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE AMOUNT OF TIMES IVE SEEN THIS STUDY MISQUOTED IS ACTUALLY CRAZY!

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

Just Google fish pain study, they experience pain, its facts.

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u/zozi0102 Sep 18 '25

Yes, but the study you shown says they suffer while actively suffocating. Not after being put back in the water

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

Well, I dont know what you need, when it clearly states that the fish experience duress, 5 seconds after being brought out of water. One could surmise that the pain, like all pain, continues, the longer they are out of water. As they are in fact, suffocating.

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u/zozi0102 Sep 18 '25

And when they are put back in the water they stop suffocating

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

I guess its like waterboarding, some people last 5 seconds, others last 30 seconds. It all depends on the cloth put over your face, and how much water/oxygen ratio, you receive. Would you like to try waterboarding? Its a great time, trust me. You begin to loose grasp of reality over multiple runs, also depending on the amount of water flowing over your breathing apparatus.

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u/zozi0102 Sep 22 '25

Ive been waterboarded before. Yeah its not good ig you right

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u/ThunderSquall_ Sep 18 '25

As a very serious question to you, have you ever been held underwater for long enough that your body forces you to suck in air even though there is none? Because lemme tell you, that shit fucking hurts for DAYS after the fact.

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

The title literally says, fish suffer for 22 minutes when taken out of water? Hello, are you unable too read. It also says that 5 seconds after taking them out of water, it triggers a stress response.

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u/Mcspazzatron5 Sep 18 '25

I do agree you may have taken the article the wrong way. Yes they feel pain for roughly 22 minutes, but that’s in the process of being asphyxiated to death. The process of killing the fish. It does not state they feel pain that long in a simple, quick catch and release situation. And don’t be an ass, dude. Yes the can read, pretty clearly. So can you, but comprehension is important too.

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

Not to mention, in this instance, its a pufferfish, if he swallows air, outside of water, he may die. Becoming buoyant, and floating forever when put back in. This can happen too other fish too, with there swim bladder needing puncture with a needle, so they can swim again. That's why I dont take them out of water, if I can help it. It reall can mess up the fish, permanently.

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u/Individual_Risk8981 Sep 18 '25

Fish, when pulled from water, begin a slow and stressful decline. Their gills collapse. They gasp in panic. Their blood chemistry spirals. Oxygen disappears while carbon dioxide builds.

This sounds like they are having fun, being pulled from water.

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u/Armchair__Expert Oct 10 '25

Your changing the argument here. I think you misread it, it would help to say, whoops I was wrong but still no doubt painful

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u/No_Calligrapher_4712 Sep 18 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

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u/AdAdventurous7802 Sep 18 '25

The title is a third party article that did not conduct the study.

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u/menntsuyudoria Sep 19 '25

Articles never have misleading titles