Lamnid
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I know I could post this in the hunting/spearfishing group, but I thought it might be a more general question and would like to see what everyone thought.
This is what I heard about spearfishing...
1) You can only catch as much as you intend to eat
2) Spearfishers prefer not to use a tank as they believe it gives them an unnatural advantage
3) You cannot sell anything you catch or spearfish for commercial purposes.
So my question is thus. It seems to me that spearfishing is a moreover organic method of catching fish rather than commercial fishing. I'm aware that a large scale supermarket such as Sainsburys would not be able to catch enough fish to stock it's shops this way, but hear me out. On an ethical scale, isn't it better to catch and sell fish caught by spear rather than in nets? You don't damage other populations, you surely wouldn't catch more than you needed and the fish wouldn't suffer any more than it would if caught by net because it's a acase of shoot it and bring it to the surface where it would die of aphixiation anyway isn't it? I just can't see why people aren't allowed to sell fish they caught spearfishing - I'd rather buy fish caught this way because in my opinion, it's much more ethical. Anyone got a spin on this?
This is what I heard about spearfishing...
1) You can only catch as much as you intend to eat
2) Spearfishers prefer not to use a tank as they believe it gives them an unnatural advantage
3) You cannot sell anything you catch or spearfish for commercial purposes.
So my question is thus. It seems to me that spearfishing is a moreover organic method of catching fish rather than commercial fishing. I'm aware that a large scale supermarket such as Sainsburys would not be able to catch enough fish to stock it's shops this way, but hear me out. On an ethical scale, isn't it better to catch and sell fish caught by spear rather than in nets? You don't damage other populations, you surely wouldn't catch more than you needed and the fish wouldn't suffer any more than it would if caught by net because it's a acase of shoot it and bring it to the surface where it would die of aphixiation anyway isn't it? I just can't see why people aren't allowed to sell fish they caught spearfishing - I'd rather buy fish caught this way because in my opinion, it's much more ethical. Anyone got a spin on this?