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Unnecessary violence toward defenseless animals, kind of what the fishing thread is

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You’ll never guess what thread Colin spends most of his time in…

I think I made it plenty clear that I wasn't aware of the cockerell's demise and apologised immediately.

Yes, I spend a small amount of time on the fishing thread, for which I am utterly unapologetic. I would cheerfully defend fishing as a pastime (it isn't a sport) face to face with anyone not equipped with blinkers.

Fishing is like meditation with a meal at the end

To be fair from following the fishing thread it seems there’s very little catching of actual fish that happens

There's a fishing thread?

There's very little cycling going on in this forum.

I would cheerfully defend fishing as a pastime

Catch & release? Go on then, I'd be keen to hear a defence of the indefensible

there's a cycling thread?

Catch & release?

Imagine if people caught wild birds, stabbed them in the face, and let them go, and described it as a pastime. Bonkers. Somehow it's easier to pretend a fish is non-sentient / ok to torture because they don't inhabit the same physical space as us.

Gone fishing is great TV though, not personally keen on the face stabbing.

Fishing is like meditation with a meal at the end

Yeah, watched a film about fishing a few years ago, very relaxing as I remember, they didn’t use the face stabbing method though

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On our bit of trout stream some wild fish are caught and stripped of eggs and milt, the resulting fry are raised in a hatchery, vastly improving the chances of the fry reaching maturity. The donors are released.

If our waterways were left to the Environment Agency, most would resemble barren canals for surface run-off, water meadows would pretty much cease to exist.

Left to the water companies anything upstream of a sewage works would be abstracted and flow levels vastly reduced. Anything downstream would be a slow running sewer.

Left to the general public, every bankside would be knee deep in rubbish and the water would enjoy even more shopping trollies (and bikes). You should see the amount of crap cleared by working parties of fishermen.

Fishermen are about the only people who give a damn about fish and, therefore, the biodiversity which supports them.

It's a little like defending cycling, not a perfect form of transport but infinitely better than most alternatives.

There's very little cycling going on in this forum.

The newer fixed gear riders collectives like the FPC, Icarus, the Fixedwitches and so on - are any of them on this forum or are they all only on Instagram?

biodiversity which supports them.

Don't forget the biodiversity that they support in turn.

I might start a forum for fixed gear riders who live in London. Single-speed maybe invited I’ll think about it

It's a little like defending....

...fox hunting. I don't dispute that the coarse fishing economy drives some desirable conservation activity, but torturing fish is not a necessary part of that activity.

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Memes plz.

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Fishermen are about the only people who give a damn about fish

so you fish them out of their home and eat them and or you pay someone else to do it for you?

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