Animal rights groups. They sound innocuous, they sound fairly simple. They act quite strangely at times by comparing the holocaust to chicken farms, they throw red paint on people wearing fur, they go on a lake in a huge yellow ducky and fire shotguns in the air to scare away waterfowl.

They are a crazy bunch for sure... it is so hard to believe anyone can take them seriously. Anglers have never had anything to fear in the past, but things are changing quickly....
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..In both of the recent studies--one by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, the other by Texas Tech University--they tracked the survival rate of fish caught in tournaments (using a control group) over a six-day period. The Oklahoma study found that up to 43 percent of fish released from a well died within six days. Texas Tech's numbers were even higher, with 62 percent of the tournament fish dead in six days, while none of the control fish died.....
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We all understand that it is immoral, antithetical to Christian mercy, to torture dogs and cats. It is equally un-Christian to torture or kill (or pay others to torture and kill) fish and other animals. Although they may not be able to scream out in pain, fish have the same capacity for suffering and the same right to our compassion as do dogs, cats, and other human beings.
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"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." -Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA
With the recent study showing the nerve receptor cells in fish, the AR groups have been jumping all over this one. We have known for a long time that angling would come under fire.... now it has begun. And those that used to say we were crazy for thinking such a thing... we need your help, just like we asked years ago.

Robert J.