Is it true that fish don't feel pain?

Fish feel pain .

as humans we have a tendency to anthropomorphize everything. meaning giving human characteristics to non human things. though i wont say that fish feel zero pain as that cant be proven until fish learn to talk, i will say that their is strong evidence that they do not feel pain the same way that we do.

to give an example. imagine if you will, you’re are sitting at the dinner table eating a nice chicken dinner. you take a bite not realizing there is a steel barbed hook in it. unfortunately it doesn’t hook your lip, you swallow it and the hook is impaled in your stomach. instantly you are yanked out of your chair and dragged across the floor. you fight at the door but in the end you are forced out and hung in the air, remember by your stomach. the line is cut and you are let go with the hook still imbedded in you stomach and a rope coming out your mouth.

the pain would be unbearable and the mental trauma would probably make us think twice about every bite we take for the rest of our lives.

i have been on fishing trips where not only did this happen but i caught the exact same fish on the very next cast. if they were wired the same as us there is no way that fish would have taken the bait within 10 minutes of having gone through what it did. can you imagine a human sitting back down on the table and finishing dinner?

now this is just anecdotal evidence and im sure i will get thumbs down for this but there are numerous stories that point to this same conclusion. many of us have caught the same fish multiple times on a fishing trip, fish having surgery not anesthetized, having eyes cut and drained or bellies opened and stitched up tossed back into the tank and swimming away just fine.

Fish have already been found to have “nociceptors” – sensory receptors that in humans respond to potentially damaging stimuli by sending signals to the brain, allowing them to feel pain.

However, the latest research concluded that the mere presence of the receptors did not mean the animals felt pain, but only triggered a unconscious reaction to the threat.

The latest findings contradict previous research, which suggested that these nociceptors enabled the creatures to feel reflexive and cognitive pain.

They have a nervous system, a brain, and react to external stimulus. Yes, they can feel pain.

That’s Bull crap. Skin a fish alive is cruel. So is ‘catch and release’—especially for sports shows, which are nothing but advertising and bragging.

Catfish or whatever, you cut it’s head off first.

they do feel pain

There living and breathing of course they feel pain .