Michigan Muskie Alliance

The West Michigan Angler’s News
http://www.msue.msu.edu/objects/content ... 02009.pdf/

A quote from the above newsletter:

Anti-fishing Arguments and Catch-and- Release Realities
... In Germany, catching a fish is now considered illegal abuse of a wild animal unless proper justification is presented...

REALLY?!?! Wow. I hope that mentality never becomes policy on these shores.

That snippet goes on to talk about a fish's ability to sense pain (or lack thereof). I can believe that, since I've poked a score of fish in Ovid last year with tags under the dorsal fin and not one of them showed any observable sign of pain/discomfort I could detect.