I realized this[*] when I was small and we were fishing. One day I picked up the fish that we had caught that were on a string hanging in the water off the boat and I looked at them and I started kissing them. My brother turned to my parents ... Read More

The last time I went fishing I hooked a little trout and decided to do something different and remove the hook while it was still in the water. I brought the fish close enough and then slipped my hand around it gently. As I began working the hook out the ... Read More

There is a very special place in my heart for sea animals. I was born in Lima, Peru and my great-grandparents were immigrants from Italy that relied on fishing as their source of income. The typical story of Europeans coming to the New World to start a new life. When I ... Read More

[Kissing a caught fish] is nothing more than a sadistic act. A sadistic act I was guilty of for many, many years as a fisherman. When there is no “connection “ to the fact that all living beings deserve a life free of abuse, exploitation, torture and horrific deaths, acts ... Read More

Nothing made me more sure to be vegan as an adult than being forced to go fishing/hunting as a kid. All the glee at suffering was horrifying to me and I hated it. Ten years vegan and no plans to stop.

I grew up in a rural area around a lot of violence and death. I was completely indoctrinated into the objectification of everyone who was not human.  I used to go out with a pole and hook fishes, bring them up out of their water, cut off their heads, gut them, ... Read More

I used to love fishing..... Then, in 1985 I started dating a vegetarian who, after 18 months, convinced me that fishing was a blood sport..... I haven't fished for over 30 years years now.  I miss it - but to start again now would go against all my values.  [Instead of ... Read More

I use to fish till I ripped the mouth off a trout fly fishing. My friend said, "it's okay we will keep that one," & hung him on a hook with the 2 others in the water alive to keep them fresh till we finished our fun then back at ... Read More

I used to love fishing... i remember i hated when the hook became stuck in a bad place, i remember i didn't want to hurt the fish... psh... and the bait....i felt bad for them... but i had some kind of filter... or something that was keeping me from acting ... Read More

When I was a little girl, my parents had some friends over who went fishing off our rocks. When I saw the poor fish on a hook and in a bucket. I burst into such a frantic horrified panic, crying and screaming to let the fish go, and I wouldn’t ... Read More

I was pescatarian until a teacher said to me are you pescatarian for the animals or health? So I said both and he reminded me that fish were dragged out of the sea by their faces and the thought of it suffocated me never mind the fish.  ... Read More

I remember going fishing with my teenage friends. It was catch and release--but then I refused when I realized we were supposed to hook fishes' mouths, then put them back in the water bleeding, with open wounds that would inevitably get infected and cause immense suffering. As a neurologist, the ... Read More

Seeing a puffer fish on tv at 3am, creating a geometrically intricate mosaic on the seabed floor, not sleeping for 3 nights or days, to attract the pregnant female, was enough to make me give up all sea creatures there and then and was my path to veganism...and years on, ... Read More

"My first sporting obsession as an adult was fly-fishing…For a decade, my life revolved around…trying to deceive trout with bits of feather and floss and thread wound onto small hooks. I caught fish: gorgeous…arctic grayling, with their luminous dorsal fins that glowed turquoise and lilac and green, until you lifted them ... Read More