Non human animals’ exploitation is so conventional, so obvious that the blood in the steak becomes the sauce.
Even when the "food" has a face, like fish, humans find a way to alienate themselves from the pain and suffer. They invented a myth that fish can’t feel pain.

There is no rational or moral thinking, only fixated and inconsistent concepts. A fish is no less capable of suffering than a dog, a cat or a human. Humans, however, prefer to believe, against all biological and anatomical facts, that fish can't feel pain. What a convenient excuse for humans to treat fish as commodities. As a matter of fact, they don’t really need excuses.

They don’t claim that chickens, cows, sheep and pigs don’t feel pain, and yet it doesn’t bother them while they kick them, burn them, stab them, scar them, debeak them, drown them, step on them, imprison them, cut them, detoe them, dehorn them, beat them, starve them, ride them, sear them… and finally murder them.

It seems that humans would do every possible mistake and would take any immoral decision. Regarding fish, they torture them for fun, prison them for ornament, killing them for sport, building walkways, hotels, restaurants, private beaches and marinas while destroying natural coastline and restricting their habitats.
Humans invade their homes with ships that cause distressing noise pollution, chemical pollution, space pollution and oil pollution.
Humans also disregard their fellow race needs and rights including, of course, their own, by turning every river, lake and ocean in to a waste dump.
When consuming fish, humans actually eat their own excretion.
Fish pick up all kinds of pollutions. But the humans who eat fish don’t pay the price, laboratory animals do!
In order to cure humans diseases which as always, are caused by their own fault and irresponsibility, more animals are being tortured.

Common sense, as well as scientific evidence, tells us that fish experience pain.
In fact, all vertebrates (animals with backbones), whether they are cold or warm blooded, two or four footed, feathered or with scales, can feel pain and can suffer from stress.

Fish display similar signs to humans when they are under stress and faced with dangerous situations, such as, increased heart rate, increased breathing rate, adrenaline rush, writhing and gasping.
Like all sentients, fish feel pain out of biological necessity.

They possess a brain, central nervous system and pain receptors all over their bodies. Without the ability to feel pain they would not survive. They also produce enkephalins and endorphins, chemicals known to counter pain in humans. Anatomically and physiologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals. All mammals, including humans.

"Surely it is only because fish do not yelp or whimper that otherwise decent people can think it is a pleasant way of spending an afternoon, to sit by the water dangling a hook while previously caught fish die slowly beside them." - (Peter Singer, Animal Liberation)
This time we disagree with him. All the other imprisoned, tortured and murdered animals can yelp, whimper and scream but still humans don’t care.

Fish have particularly sensitive mouths, which are important not only for feeding, but also for building nests and for hiding their offspring from dangers. Fishing hooks tear apart their fragile mouths.
In deep-sea fishing, the use of sharp metal hooks called “gaffs” is quite common. Gaffs are impaled into the body of a fully-conscious fish to make it easier to load the fish onto the boat. Hooks are regularly swallowed by fish and their removal often damages internal organs and leads to death. It can also be caught in their gills or eyes. The huge hooks used in shark fishing, often cause the animals to vomit up their entire stomach in a desperate attempt to get rid of the painful sharp metal.

As opposed to common conception, removing a fish from water is always harmful and painful, no matter for how long, even for a short period. Fish do not die instantly when they are being pulled out from the water, but exposed to an environment they are not designed to cope with.
The stress caused by pressure and temperature changes from pulling a fish up from deep water is so severe that most of the fish die as a consequence. When hauled up from the deep, fish undergo excruciating decompression. Frequently, the intense internal pressure ruptures the swimbladder, pops out the eyes and pushes the oesophagus and stomach out through the mouth. Other factors include stress imposed due to the sudden change in temperature, noise, vibration, oxygen concentration, light intensity and damage to the protective mucous layer.
Once out of the water, fish slowly suffocate like humans would underwater. In their death throes, fish writhe, gasp and flap their gills as they desperately try to get oxygen.
Anyone who has ever been unable to breathe, even for a short time, won't need a convincing that this is a terrifying experience.

Imagine that right now, while you are sitting in front of your computer a giant hook is thrown at you, stuck into your mouth and aggressively pulls you.
Your whole weight hangs on your jaw and you are yanked into an atmosphere where you cannot breathe and slowly suffocate. This is fishing.

Angling is a form of fishing, in which the fish is hooked, "played" to exhaustion, and sometimes thrown back to the water. It is also known as "catch and release". The fact that the fish are being thrown back into the water doesn’t make angling any different from shooting and hunting. The catching and the releasing itself cause severe pain to the fish. Most of the fish are injured during the catch and won’t survive back in the water.
Angling revolves around using and causing suffer to a living creature, to provide amusement for human being.

Fish may be put into keepnets after they are caught. These nets are designed to imprison fish underwater, before being released. However, many fish are injured from the net mesh or from being squeezed together with other fish. The fish mucus (fish's slime protective coat) is very gentle. Humans cause severe damage to the fish’s mucus when they touch it. Damaging the mucus is compared with third degree burns in humans.
The fish catch diseases from other sick fish in the keepnet and many die due to depletion of oxygen in these devices. The traumatized and injured fish can either die from the injuries or from the stress of being caught, after they are returned to the water. It takes time for fish to recover from the injury caused by the catch. During the recovery time they are extremely vulnerable to attacks, infections and diseases.
A research found that more than half of the thrown back fish, died within a week.
Keepnets are most popular at fishing matches, enabling each angler to weigh his complete catch at the end of this insane match. Many anglers use keepnets simply as a personal ego boost.

Baits

Baits usually include live maggots or any part of dead animals, such as heads, eyes and eggs. For larger predatory fish, fishermen and anglers use live bait such as frogs, minnows and other small fish, worms, slugs and insects.

Live baits are used because they bleed hence attract more fish.
Frogs are hooked through the leg or back, minnows are pierced with one or two hooks through the eye sockets, tail, lips or back, and are then cast into the water to suffer until they die of their injuries.
Often, a live small fish is threaded up as bait for larger fish. Here is one description of how to do it, taken from a fishing magazine: "The needle is passed through the front of the socket of both eyes. The material is then pulled through so that the hook sits on the head of the baitfish". Remember that the "baitfish" is alive.

The terrified fish is then thrown into the water where they can only struggle in agony on the hook, until they are being eaten by another fish. Because many anglers don't want to waste time catching bait before they start fishing, the bait fish are commonly kept at home in small tanks. Some anglers keep fish confined in these tanks for months.
In these conditions the fish develop white spot, fungus and bacterial infections.
This also harms the fish who live open water when the baits are used.

Needless to say, many of these fish die due to inadequate aeration, temperature fluctuations, dirty water, stress and diseases.

Commercial fishing

The boats that are emptying the world's seas are vast floating factory units, equipped with radar and satellite technology to track their helpless prey. There is No place to hide. No chance to escape.

Fishermen are moving from stock to stock systematically destroying it and moving on to the next one.

The most common modern commercial fishing techniques are:

Trawling

Trawling is one of the most common methods of commercial fishing in the world. A trawl is a big, heavy, “open-mouthed net” that is pulled along the seabed by heavy boats. Hundreds of creatures are killed as it grinds over the sandy bottom of the ocean.
Trawling, literally clear-cut the ocean floor, grinding up coral reefs and other habitats. As the fish in the nets are dragged up from the ocean depths, the change in pressure causes their eyes to severely inflate and their swim bladder to burst.
Many suffocate or crushed to death under the weight of all the other fish and other creatures including starfish, crabs, shellfish and more. The unwanted catch is “simply” thrown back to the sea where they will suffer and die.

Finning

Imagine how you would feel when you try to walk after both of your legs were cut off...

Finning is a relatively new method of fishing which involves catching sharks and slicing off their fins. The sharks, still alive, are thrown back to the water where they die of shock and blood loss. Over 100 million sharks are murdered this way each year. Shark fin soup is very popular in Chinese restaurants.

Drift Netting

This is one of the most destructive methods of fishing. It involves the use of a very strong but very fine net made of nylon, which is almost invisible in the water. It forms a wall beneath the water surface and catches all the fish, dolphins, small whales, seals and sharks that swim into it. This method is used to catch tuna fish, so all other creatures are therefore discarded. Over a million dolphins die from being caught in these nets each year. Of course we don’t mention this because dolphins are somehow more important than other fish, but only to emphasis the destructiveness of the method.
It doesn’t matter what species the one who suffers belongs to.
Suffer is suffer.

Drift nets can stretch for more than 30 kilometers and cause a great deal of destruction. It sometimes breaks free during storms and drifts around catching sea animals. The weight of the dead bodies drags it to the bottom of the ocean where it lies until the bodies rot. It then floats back to the surface and continues to capture more animals.

Purse Seine Nets

Purse seine nets form a circle around shoals of fish and scoop them all out of the water. The size of the mesh sometimes allows smaller fish to escape, in many cases with severe injuries. The environmental damage is similar to the damage done by the “drift netting” method.

Long Line Fishing

Thousands of baited hooks are attached to lines, stretched for several kilometers behind a boat. This method of fishing is commonly used in rocky areas, where nets are torn.
Each time, thousands of fish are caught on the hooks for hours, sailing away with the boat while they hang on the hook from the mouth.

Sea birds often scavenge for food behind long line boats and try to eat the bait from the hooks, as they are set behind the boat. Some birds swallow the hooks and are dragged underwater. More than 300,000 seabirds are killed in this way each year.

At least fifth of the marine catch is thrown back into the water because it is too small or from the “wrong species”. We are all familiar with dolphins caught in nets, set for Tuna. Less well known is the number of unwanted fish caught while harvesting shrimp. For every pound of shrimp, 5 to 10 pounds of non-shrimp are caught.

In Norway, Iceland and Japan whales are “the right species” with more than a thousand whales brutally murdered each year for meat. The method for killing whales involves chasing the animals by boat and firing a grenade-tipped harpoon which explodes inside their bodies.
Since the harpoon gunners are on a moving boat, aiming at a moving animal, they cannot guarantee an accurate hit. Most of the time the harpoon hits the body - causing major injury, leaving the whale suffering for hours until a second killing attempt is used, usually a rifle or another harpoon.

It is estimated that worldwide, 155,000 sea turtles drown in shrimp nets each year.
An estimated 100,000 seals, whales, and dolphins and a million birds every year become entangled in nets and drown.

The fish industry call some of the murders predators control but the mentality is actually "Lets Kill Anything That Moves"

Due to "overfishing", farming of fish has been promoted by the industry as the answer to the decrease in fish production. Fish farming involves the growing of fish, mainly trout and salmon, in cages or pools for human consumption. This is just like any other type of factory farming. The rearing of farmed fish is as intensive as any broilers or turkeys shed. Fish are crammed together in tanks or earth ponds.
Same as chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep that have become victims, of the human race’s desire to produce more animals flesh at cheaper prices, so did salmon and trout. Salmon come from parents who were murdered and stripped of their eggs. The Salmon parr (young salmon) are grown in freshwater hatcheries for 12-18 months, after which they are transferred to loch or estuary cages. The sudden transfer to seawater is such a trauma that many die, sometimes as much as 50% and rarely less than 15%. Wild salmon migrate over hundreds of miles from the rivers where they are spawned to the open sea. They even leap waterfalls to travel upstream to spawn. Therefore, keeping this species in small static cages causes severe stress. The frustration of the instinctual migratory behaviour is shown by the fish's continual agitation, leaping and swimming in incessant circles round and round the cage. The high stocking density of 15kg fish per cubic meter is equivalent to keeping a 2 ft salmon in a bath.

Diseases are one of the greatest problems in fish farms. Overcrowding leads to infections of the pancreas, ulceration of the flesh, kidney disease and sea lice infestation, which multiply and graze on the fish's flesh, literally, eating them alive from the outside. When antibiotics are used in large amounts to address these diseases, the bacteria become resistant to the drug, producing yet more diseases.

The eyes of fish are particularly sensitive to stress - severe cataract was found in farmed salmon, often so bad that it causes eyes to bleed and fish to go blind.

The rape

'Stripping' accurately describes a brutal process in which eggs are taken from female fish and sperm is taken from males. The female's front of the abdominal cavity is aggressively squeezed backwards by hand, to force all the eggs out. Another method is compressing air through a needle, into the abdominal cavity. Occasionally the fish is being cut alive to remove the ovaries. Most females die after the 'stripping'.
Sperm or 'milt' is taken from male fish in a similar way. A syringe or pipette may be used to take sperm directly. It is taken at three-day periods and the males are normally killed at the end of this horrific procedure.

Fish is another animal to be violently invaded by Genetic Engineering. Growth hormones have been given to fish to speed up growth rates. Male hormones have been administered to ensure that fish are the same sex. Another method is to create three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two so that they are sterile. Salmon have been 'given' an anti-freeze protein gene so they can survive in colder water, and genetically engineered vaccines have been produced to control disease problems.

Although many fish are murdered and refrigerated or frozen to death before shipping, there are also increasing numbers of fish, which are transported alive to the processing plants. Like humans, fish suffer from motion sickness. Before they travel, they are starved for 24 hours, to prevent vomiting.
Before the killing, the fish are often being starved for up to 3 weeks to remove undesirable oil deposits (since commercial fish are fed with very rich in oil food) and making it less messy to take out the insides of the fish.

The murder is usually carried out by a hit on the head.
Fish who survive the blow will suffer extreme pain from the injuries. Possibly losing an eye. Another method is placing the fish in a tank with carbon dioxide gas. They stop moving after 30 seconds, but do not lose consciousness for 5-10 minutes.

Trout are often packed in ice, slowly freezing to death, up to half an hour of dying in agony.
In some markets fish steaks are cut off from live fish, starting at the tail while the fish continues to swim around the bowl between customers.

Besides the obvious suffer and problems regarding farmed fish pools, tens of thousands farmed fish escape because of bad management or storm damage. They then breed with wild fish, creating a population of cross-breeds. The cross-breeds are less capable of surviving in the wild because farmed fish are bred to exhibit more placid behaviour, later sexual development and fast growth. These characteristics make the fish less suited to living in the wild. The farmed fish may also destroy indigenous stocks by causing short-term competition for food. Parasitic infections, originated from fish reared in cages (which are highly prone to disease due to their unnaturally close denisity) are decimating native fish populations.

Another destructive environmental harm is the nylon line, that anglers use, that frequently breaks when hooks are snagged on underwater obstructions or bankside vegetation, or is discarded when it gets tangled during casting. It biodegrades very slowly and causes death and injuries to millions of animals. Waterfowls such as swans and ducks are especially vulnerable. They pick up hooks, lines and weights while feeding. Consequently they will slowly starve to death or die from internal wounds caused by the swallowed hook. Their feet often get entangled with the nylon line, limbs and wings can be severed.
Swans are dying of lead poisoning. Pelicans, herons, osprey, turtles, and manatees have all been found with injuries from fishing tackle. Entanglement can lead to starvation. A line that cuts off blood circulation in a foot or a wing will cause necrosis and eventually death.

The north sea, where 40% of the fish are being caught, has become so polluted that some fishermen now wear protective face masks to prevent rashes and other skin disorders which are caused by simply touching the water.

Society is irrevocably speciesist and immoral.
Gains made are easily reversed.
Animal abuse will go on until mankind becomes extinct, or the planet is destroyed. It’s time to open our eyes and admit that we shall never overcome.
History has shown that working within the cruel system and winning small battles for the animals proved to be irrelevant. The animals’ carnage continues.
The opposition is stronger, better financed, and more numerous than animal defenders.

If you are only interested in clearing your conscience, you better stay in the conventional movement.
If you are interested in liberating billions of animals and humans from life full of suffer... there is only one solution.