Do fish have nerves?

[Tail Chaser]

Do fish feel pain?
Riping a gill plate out for bleeding out the fish while its still alive.
Do you think the fish feels it?
How about the knife to the heart. Any pain?
Hopefully the fish have no nerves,and feel no pain.

[Baseballer44]

I just try not to think about it too much. I dont know if I want the answer to this, because Im sure they must.

[Tail Chaser]

Maybe thats why drinking and fishing go so well together.
The drinking deadens the sorrow of hurting the little fishys :food:

[olefrog]

The argument over whether fish feel pain has long been a subject of dispute between anglers and animal rights activists.
It is said they do ,when one finds its self on the bottom of the pecking order your in trouble.
Bleed um eat um ,it's natures way.


ta ta ole frog

[City Dad]

Humans tend to humanize everything. When people talk about pain and fish, I think they are actually talking about suffering and fish. I don't think fish suffer.

[IslandBoi]

Every living thing feels pain,some kind, some way, fish hurt just like any other living thing.

Just don't think about it

Survival of the fittest :D

[DreStyle]

To answer the question about fish having nerves you can say that they do have a brain and nervous system. That's how they gather data about their surroundings and condition. Whether or not their brain interprets the signals from their nerves in the same manner as ours interprets "pain" is impossible ever truely know.

[xahx]

PETA would kno!

[one_leg]

Fish are masochists, that's what I prefer to believe.
I'm just doing them a favor when I catch, skin alive, and eat them.

I'm really looking forward to looking one of em in the eye while I eat them alive.
Sashimi, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Trollmiester knows how good it tastes that way. Don't ya, Trolly?

If it troubles you that much, just whack em on the head until they stop moving. One good thump is usually all it takes.

One_Leg

[Odium]

Remember to use a rubber mallet to do it :P