Fish can not feel pain.

[Giuga10]

(01-13-2013 11:02 PM)tangledline Wrote:  If pain was felt would you stop or move in the direction your pulled to relieve the pain?
Or like a carp bolt at full speed and strength against the pressure and increase the pain?

Fish are an insanely less developed species than us, not judging brain power but society. We live in a society where we have seen almost everything and have been taught how to react to those things, fish don't have those opportunities so when put into that situation they use what they have taught themselves, which is to flee from whatever it is and hopefully it will stop.

I do believe fish feel pain (less but still do), because they do flee for a reason and that is to try to escape it. If you've ever hooked into a live fish for bait you notice that they get extremely squirmy when the hook is penetrating the skin so they must feel something.

Giuga10