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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Poor thing :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Bring back dynamite fishing then!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The article does a shitty job of linking to the paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04272-1

It makes a pretty good case that fish experience a lot of pain immediately after being taken out of the water.

I don't think this will do much to impact commercial fishing, it seems like it's targeted at the slaughter stages of fish farms

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Our population voted someone into the highest office riding on the promise of drilling for more oil and increasing factory farming. We have atomized our culture so much that corporate forces have stripped people of their empathy and care and passion like an overripe banana and we don't mix perspectives anymore so that we can pull people back.

There's no hope of ending this misery until those of us who remain thinking with our minds get off the computer and start socializing, organizing, challenging people and pulling people into our idea of a better tomorrow. Most people don't even know where to find other people to talk to and debate with and this is by design. That's the trap we're in we need to break free of, and then maybe if we can get to that point we can start making cultured meats and alternative proteins a thing.

Otherwise, we're going to fish the oceans until they're dry and we will create hellish suffering for every life form involved until there's nothing left to feel pain.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah if people don't care about the equivalence of caging for meats then fish enduring pain is useless.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm still not going to tell you where my secret fishing spot is, no matter how many times you ask or scientific studies you perform.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

there's a trend on TikTok where you catfish (heh) men and ask them what their favorite fishing spot is

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I believe this is why Japanese fishermen will sometimes use the ikijime method where you kill the fish fast. I believe it also improves the quality of the meat too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And yet others will prepare Ikizukuri.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ikizukuri (生き作り), also known as ikezukuri (活け造り), (roughly translated as "prepared alive"[1]) is the preparing of sashimi (raw fish) from live seafood. In this Japanese culinary technique, the most popular sea animal used is fish, but octopus, shrimp, and lobster may also be used.[2] The practice is controversial owing to concerns about the animal's suffering, as it is seemingly alive when served.

The restaurant may have one or several tanks of live sea animals for a customer to choose from. There are different styles in which a chef may serve the dish but the most common way is to serve it on a plate with the filleted meat assembled on top of the body.

Ikizukiri may be prepared with only three knife cuts by the chef.[1] They are usually presented with the head still whole so that customers are able to see the continuing gill movements.[3]

look at the video, it's FUCKED UP. they removed all the meat from the fish and kept it alive attempting to breath on the plate covered in food

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are a small subset there that are pathologically obsessed with the freshness of the fish they eat. Getting parasites from barely prepped sushi is not uncommon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wow that's so fucked up

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