With any other creature we’d all agree this was torture. Why does “catch-and-release” fishing get a pass from otherwise kind people?
—from a large family of fishers

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Yeah messing with other creatures for the fun of it has a sad long history very separate from killing to eat/survive

I've always wondered about this. By the time you release them, they probably already have brain damage, What's the point? I have more respect for people who actually eat them.