Fish can not feel pain.

[MichaelAngelo]

I'm still skeptical. One article says one thing and a future article will say another.

Surely fish don't experience pain the exact same way we experience pain. We're different creatures. The same way one can say a fish doesn't experience love like we experience love.

Also, different animals have different sensitivities in different body parts. Our lips happen to be quite well represented in our sensory cortex.

But they must experience something. And just as a hook in the mouth of a human would be relatively quite awful compared to other pains, a hook in the mouth of a fish could also be relatively quite awful for the fish.

I would be interested to see how those "C fibers" are represented throughout a fish. If the fish ONLY has a FEW "C fibers" in their mouth and NO "C fibers" elsewhere, then being hooked would be one of the worst "pains" a fish could ever experience.

Playing devils advocate.


PS: How would you feel if one day you ate a hamburger and suddenly found yourself being dragged down into the water by a chord??? That's not fun! . Perhaps fish do not value their own life in the same sense we do.