All About Pisces
Until 1994 Pisces was known as the Campaign for the Abolition of
Angling (CAA). The CAA was started in 1981, the year after the
R.S.P.C.A. sponsored Medway Report was published, which stated that
fish can feel pain and stress.

Aims:
Although the name has changed, the aims of Pisces remain the same: to
educate people about the suffering inflicted on fish and other
wildlife by anglers. Pisces also helps people who are campaigning in
their areas to achieve angling bans on their local waters and keep
them up to date with what's happening in the anti-angling movement.

Angling Sabotage.
Here are three tactics used to sabotage angling:
Saboteurs will wear waterproof gear and swim, wade or splash their
feet in the water to stop anglers casting and scare away the fish.
Saboteurs will make noises in and above the water.
Saboteurs will talk to anglers to disturb their concentration.

Whilst most of our supporters work to try and stop people fishing by
showing them it is wrong, others go out and use non-violent methods to
frighten fish away from anglers and stop them going through the
suffering of being caught. Fish are suffering now, angling saboteurs
save fishes' lives now, for the short term, while the educational
campaigning works to stop all angling in the long term.

Successes:
Here are a selection of Pisces' successes:

Many local authorities have banned angling on their land or imposed
restrictions on keepnets, livebaiting etc.

Our representatives are continually taking the anti-angling message to
the public via television, radio and newspapers.

Companies are dropping sponsorship of angling competitions.

Our video has been seen in schools across the country and on
television in three continents.

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