This house believes
That so called sport fishing should be banned.
Well I do anyway.
Same with all forms of killing for so-called sport but fishing is a thing that for some reason people separate from killing and even worse maiming warm blooded things for kicks.
Setting an item of what is or appears to be food but impaled on a ultra-sharp hook that becomes embedded into the mouth or throat of a living being and then dragging it through its natural environment just for entertainment and pleasure just can't be right.
Dragging it while it's in agonising pain, terrified, and fighting for its life is sport?
Not in my book.
Pain? Yes. It has been conclusively proven that fish feel pain.
Terrified? Fighting for their lives? Of course.
And it often gets worse because landing nets are certainly not always used. Instead the fish is lifted out of what for it had been a weightless environment having its entire weight put on its head and the hook embedded in its flesh.
And this is called sport?
It should be consigned to history along with bear baiting, hare coursing, and hopefully very soon the remaining cruelty done in the name of sport.