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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand what's the point of fishing if you are releasing the fish. Fishing for food, yes. Otherwise why?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Possible reasons include:

fun
inflicting needless suffering on fish [applies if you hate fish]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

practice (some places have catch and release in effect for part of the year but you can keep caught fish later in the season)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the fish is not the type you are looking for or smaller than you want. Also fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Legal catch sizes are ridiculous in some places too, no shorter than 19, no longer than 22"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, fish is smart. It gets free food and a roller coaster ride with a hug in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

all for a missing chuck of flesh!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fish fear him

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

So the fish was able to escape? And who is dumb as fuck here? Being outsmarted by a fish. Ha, by a wounded fish!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fairly sure the dude is just fishing catch & release

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Catch and release is stupid. Do not traumatize fish needlessly. You could have just not went fishing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You also release fish that are too small to have mated yet ( at least you do in Germany). Maybe this is the case here.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I doubt fish experience trama, fish are pretty stupid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trauma is a general term for injury. This is why a psychological trauma is called that. It's as nonspecific as it gets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It also means the mental distress from an injury, which is the psychological sense. So while they'll get physical trauma (probably minor for most catch and release), it's debatable how much fish can feel psychological trauma.

The post I responded to seemed to be talking about psychological trauma, hence my comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Let’s give the fish the benefit of the doubt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Ehhhh, that would only be true if you finagle trauma into a very limited set of behaviors post trauma.

Fish do have an avoidance mechanism where they won't revisit places that they've been startled or injured in

But they also lose that behavior over time as long as the events are reproduced. Which happens in mammals, including humans, too; just not as fast or as easy.

You gotta understand that most fresh water fish operate in smaller ranges, so if they held onto the trauma response too long, then their entire territory becomes locked off. So their brains run a more limited avoidance pattern than what we do. But they do have them

While it would b e possible to dick around with the semantics around what is and isn't "trauma", fish absolutely have fear responses and avoidance of locations after injury or stress. If you don't want to call that trauma, fine, whatever. But it is a mechanism very similar to what mammals, birds, and even reptiles have.

It isn't about intelligence at all. It's about memory and risk aversion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

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