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average Israeli eats about 2,000 fishes in a lifetime, yet is also responsible for at least twice as many dead fish, since for each fish sold to consumers, another, "non economic" one dies too. Fish are caught in the sea, in rivers and in lakes, or cultivated in fish ponds or in cages placed in the sea. All these methods are extremely cruel to fish and highly destructive for the environment. In this struggle too we have to take the side of those whose voice cannot be heard.
Over a million fishes die a long death by fishing rods on Israeli coastal waters. The hook embeds itself into the fish's mouth or get swallowed down its stomach, wounding its innards. Fishing by nets causes wounds and the loss of scales. A fish raised in a net to the surface of the sea from the deep suffers from bleeding gills and its body gets bloated – the sudden loss of pressure causes the gas in its body to expand, a very painful process. Fish raised in ponds suffer extreme congestion: over 17,500 times the normal rate in natural lakes. The volume of water each fish gets is less than two or three water bottles. In these conditions, the fishes suffer from suffocation, skin inflammation, open wounds, wounded gills and parasites. Pollutants which accumulate in the ponds (pesticides, chlorine, amonia etc.) hurt their eyes and cause long-term itching and blindness. Fishes trying to escape sea cages hurl themselves against the net, thereby wounding their skin and suffering from subcutaneous bleeding. Females are artificially forced to lay eggs more quickly through methods such as starvation, hormone injection and "egg squeezing", all of which cause distress, abrasion, wounds and internal bleeding.
There is much evidence that fish feel pain: their nerve system is similar to other vertebrates (including humans), their body releases natural pain killers (such as enkephalins and endorphines) when tissues are hurt, and their behaviour also indicates they feel pain.
average Israeli eats about 2,000 fishes in a lifetime, yet is also responsible for at least twice as many dead fish, since for each fish sold to consumers, another, "non economic" one dies too. Fish are caught in the sea, in rivers and in lakes, or cultivated in fish ponds or in cages placed in the sea. All these methods are extremely cruel to fish and highly destructive for the environment. In this struggle too we have to take the side of those whose voice cannot be heard.Over a million fishes die a long death by fishing rods on Israeli coastal waters. The hook embeds itself into the fish's mouth or get swallowed down its stomach, wounding its innards. Fishing by nets causes wounds and the loss of scales. A fish raised in a net to the surface of the sea from the deep suffers from bleeding gills and its body gets bloated – the sudden loss of pressure causes the gas in its body to expand, a very painful process. Fish raised in ponds suffer extreme congestion: over 17,500 times the normal rate in natural lakes. The volume of water each fish gets is less than two or three water bottles. In these conditions, the fishes suffer from suffocation, skin inflammation, open wounds, wounded gills and parasites. Pollutants which accumulate in the ponds (pesticides, chlorine, amonia etc.) hurt their eyes and cause long-term itching and blindness. Fishes trying to escape sea cages hurl themselves against the net, thereby wounding their skin and suffering from subcutaneous bleeding. Females are artificially forced to lay eggs more quickly through methods such as starvation, hormone injection and "egg squeezing", all of which cause distress, abrasion, wounds and internal bleeding.
There is much evidence that fish feel pain: their nerve system is similar to other vertebrates (including humans), their body releases natural pain killers (such as enkephalins and endorphines) when tissues are hurt, and their behaviour also indicates they feel pain.
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Translated by Doron Greenshpan
