This is why it's encouraged to use barbless plain steel hooks. With no barb and steel that rusts, hooks like this will eventually fall out. Stainless, barbed hooks will kill the fish eventually, and the fish that eats it.
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It almost looks like a piercing. There was no way to catch the fish and remove it but it seemed to be doing alright.
How about not putting any hooks into fish in the first place?
Normalizing doing recreational activities in the least impactful way benefits nature in the short term when people who care go out to enjoy it, but also I the long term as those people spread the new normal in the hobby. 20 years ago you'd be laughed off the beach for using a barbless hook, but i've witnessed seasoned fishermen in the past few years showing tourists how to cut the barbs off their hooks and release fish without harming them.
So yes, it would be better for the earth in general if humans weren't here, but we are, and so we need to learn how to be here and lessen our impact at the same time, not by denying ourselves our humanity, but by improving what it means to be human.
Just sitting by the water and watching fish without harming them is a much less impactful recreational activity than hurting fish just to look at them, then throwing them back in the water. And it is not denying anyone's humanity, actually quite the opposite.
And people have done it for thousands of years and likely will continue to do so. Given that fact, I'd rather them do it in a sustainable way, wouldn't you?
Yes. Every improvement is good. But I think it’s important not to forget, and to also remind people, that there are even better alternatives, and questioning something that people have "always" done is actually possible. Social values are constantly evolving, and in my opinion we should move towards de-normalizing hurting animals. They are sentient beings, and causing them suffering for our own entertainment should be discouraged.
Fish that are caught and released often die within a week. These are methods of reducing the EMOTIONAL HARM that the abuser experiences associated with their abuse of animals. Fuck that shit.
Catch it with another hook to get the first one!
Poor thing :(
It got away somehow, so I’d say it’s actually quite lucky.
Relatively, I guess. I wouldn't go up to someone who got shot and tell them they're lucky though because the didn't die from it. It's probably nicer to not get shot at all. Same for this fish getting a hook in it.
I wasn’t talking about being polite to a fish. 🤪 I wouldn’t say it to a guy who had a slight head injury from a tank shell barely missing him, but I’d still consider him lucky.
Yikes through the eye socket
it seemed to be doing alright
Wonder how fish would survive hꝏk in its mouth like that . Dœs wound eventually heal like normal piercing dœs ?
If it doesn't stop it from eating and doesn't get infected somehow I guess it wouldn't necessarily kill it. I don't remember if it was eating but it moved around normally.
If this fucker would stop stealing the shrimp I’m saving maybe this wouldn’t happen. I put the shrimp on the hook and put it back in the ocean saving it for later. Then some jerk comes along and tries to eat my shrimp. It’s my shrimp. Who steals another persons shrimp?!
Bling
Just keep swimming