This week's $5 Friday pick is the incomparable Fish Feel.
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A discussion on Fish Feel being the the sole organization devoted to promoting the recognition of fish as sentient beings deserving of respect and protection.
Lori speaks with Mary Finelli founder and President of Fish Feel. Chesapeake Bay cownose rays are being slaughtered by bow fishers during senseless cruel contests. The rays are docile, and not responsible for the decreasing oyster population as has been claimed. July 30, 2016
"We will continue exposing the brutal and ecologically reckless killing,” pledged Fish Feel founder and president Mary Finelli, “but what is really needed is for the government to step up and give the rays the protection they desperately need, and the public wants them to have, by banning this animal ... Read More
National Review, Wesley J. Smith, August 18, 2016
Yeah, when I run on the beach, I see people fishing from time to time. The fish really put up a struggle. I watch children who are supposed to be having this 'bonding' experience with their relatives, usually a dad. The kids are horrified as they watch the fish struggle. ... Read More
Letter in BayNet by Michael Gurwitz and Mary Finelli, Fish Feel director, published July 5, 2016
I used to go fishing once in awhile when I was a boy. It was catch and
release, mostly of sunfish no bigger than my hand. One day, when I was
in my early teens, I saw a man with a group of boys showing how to
remove a hook ... Read More
While viewing some of the star fish that were attached to the pier one
afternoon, I over heard a father speaking to his two sons. Both sons
holding fishing poles, with a small plastic bucket they were using to
store their caught fish. Barely large enough to fit one full ... Read More
Fred's Sports recently sponsored a cruel and inhumane competition called "the Battle of the Rays." This competition was held on the Patuxent River (in the Chesapeake Bay watershed), and video taken by an animal rights organization shows cownose rays shot with arrows, gaffed with hooks and then beaten with aluminum baseball bats. ... Read More
I used to fly fish. I thought it was ok because I used only barbless hooks and never killed a fish. I always released them. But after learning the truth about fish I gave the practice up years ago. Wish I had done so sooner.
Fish Feel president Mary Finelli believes the report and recent scientific evidence should be enough to spur the Maryland government to action. "These rays have been wrongfully vilified," Finelli said. "In addition to egregious cruelty, it is environmentally reckless."
"It's brutal," said Mary Finelli of Maryland-based animal rights group Fish Feel. "It's vicious, savage, sadistic. It's appalling. The government has a responsibility to protect Maryland wildlife."
Mary Finelli, President of Fish Feel said: "There is no valid justification for the vicious massacre of these gentle creatures who are merely trying to survive.”
Last Saturday, the New York outfit "American Bowhunters" sponsored a cownose ray tournament on the Patuxent River, and in the run-up to it drew the condemnation of two animal rights groups, Fish Feel and SHARK, who asked Maryland's Department of Natural Resources to stop bowfishing tournaments outright — calling it ... Read More
"I remember being little and my family took me to Red Lobster for dinner. When I saw the lobsters in the tank, I asked why they were there. When someone told me, I threw a fit and started sobbing uncontrollably because I couldn't understand why someone would want to eat ... Read More
i was five when i witnessed fish gasping for breath and screaming with their eyes. in a bucket on my grandfathers boat. i pushed that bucket off the boat. i was smacked violently. it was worth it. it was 1971.
SHARK and sister organization Fish Feel have also petitioned Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton to take action against the contest and slaughter of the cownose rays.
National Fisherman, Jessica Hathaway, June 21, 2016
Is the state going to act responsibly or stand by and let countless more of these animals be massacred?" asks Mary Finelli, president of Fish Feel. SHARK and sister organization Fish Feel have also petitioned Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton to take action against the contest and ... Read More