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HOW YOU CAN HELP stop fishing?
I used to be a great fisherman, charter boats and supply fishing gear.
It wasn't until my boat sunk through neglect, almost killing five customers that I realized how shallow, selfish and cruel fishing was. We turn a beautiful, tranquil, natural setting into a horrendous bloodsport and dont even realise it, how dumb can we really be, that we never even think of the fish and other wildlife? Perhaps we know we are just kidding ourselves? HOW YOU CAN HELP Angling is still a very popular pastime, because many people do not realise that fish can feel pain and that therefore, angling is a cruel sport. If we want to change this, it is important to educate people of the suffering caused to fish and other wildlife. Anything you do, no matter how small it may seem to you, will reinforce what others are doing to help. Although with something this popular it will take a long time before it is banned completely, everyone of us can speed up the time when that day arrives. Here is a selection of things you can do. 1. Tell your friends (especially any that go angling) what happens to fish when they are caught and why angling is cruel. We can send you leaflets and factsheets to give them. If you want more information to answer any questions that come up, write to us and we'll help. 2. Give out Pisces leaflets and display our posters. 3. Write to the letters' page of your local newspapers explaining how you feel about angling. Watch out for any pro-angling replies and send them to us quickly so that we can reply to the points made, and/or reply yourself. 4. Try to get the issue of angling discussed at your school or youth club. Ask a sympathetic teacher if it is possible to arrange a showing of our video 'Angling the Neglected Bloodsport", which covers the main anti-angling arguments and was produced with school audiences in mind. In many areas of the country we can provide speakers to come to your school, show the video and answer questions. We can provide details of pro-angling groups if your teacher wants to present both sides of the argument. Alternatively, the video can be hired for the cost of postage. Perhaps a teacher may be interested in setting 'angling" or 'bloodsports' as an essay or project topic and we can send literature to students to help with this. 5. Ask if you can create a display on angling for your classroom, the library or elsewhere in the school. Try to make it as colourful as possible, with lots of pictures to attract everyone's attention, 6. Don't eat fish. 7. Extend your compassion for fish to other animals and take a vegetarian or vegan diet. A vegetarian eats no meat, fish, fowl or slaughterhouse by-products such as gelatine or animal fat. There are now over 4 million vegetarians in the UK. Many people also go on to become vegans, who are vegetarians who additionally do not eat milk, eggs or anything produced from animals. Why Vegetarian? Did you realise that on average meat eaters eat 5 cows, 29 sheep, 822 poultry, 20 pigs and half a tonne of fish in their lifetime? Most of these animals are kept in close confinement with many other animals causing extreme distress and boredom to the animal. All are brutally killed. So Why Vegan? Calves are torn away from their mothers at one or two days of age so that we can have milk. Their mothers are overworked and treated as breeding milk machines. They are kept permanently pregnant so that they will provide more milk. Birds kept for eggs are usually confined in battery cages where they can barely stretch their wings. Most people keeping birds for eggs, even free range, will kill male birds. For useful tips and delicious recipes write to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 10 Parkgate House, London, SW18 4JQ, UK. 2QF http://www.peta-online.org/ The Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards on Sea, E. Sussex TN37 7AA , UK http://www.vegansociety.com/ VIVA, 12 Queen Square, Brighton, BN1 3FD, UK http://www.viva.org.uk/ The Vegetarian Society, Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WAI 44QG, UK. http://www.vegsoc.org/ VeganVillage, devoted to cruelty free and ethical goods and information. http://www.veganvillage.co.uk/ 8. Think of ways you can enjoy the waterways and help the environment without catching or killing our wildlife. 9. Join Pisces as a youth member. This costs £4 per year. You will receive regular magazines and a new members' pack including stickers, posters and a badge. 10. Organise a fund raising event to help support our campaigns work. There are an endless number of ways to raise money - a sponsored event is one of the most popular. Why not do something positive for the environment at the same time as raising money, for example, collect cans for recycling or the litter clean up mentioned above could be done with sponsorship per bag or per hour. Your local council will be able to tell you where you can take steel and aluminium cans. Pisces can print you an official sponsorship form for your event. 11. Get involved with your local animal rights group, who will campaign against all types of animal cruelty, by leafleting, running street stalls, attending demonstrations, etc. Some have specific youth groups, but even if they haven't, they may be able to put you in touch with other young people who are already campaigning. We can send details of your local animal rights group. Alternatively, Pisces can help you set up an animal group at your school or youth club. 12. Organise a Tackle/Litter Clean-up. You may like to read our page about tackle/litter clean ups http://www.pisces.demon.co.uk/litter.html 13. Dispose of your litter carefully, as it can be very harmful to wildlife. Pisces BM FISH, LONDON, WC1N 3XX Tel: 01792 464 176 Web http://www.pisces.demon.co.uk/ Cheerio, |
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