It’s my experience that fish are still seen a disposable pets
Maybe because of the low prices but personally I blame the fairgrounds who for decades gave goldfish away as prizes, I believe this still goes on today
This is how many millions of people first enter the hobby, I certainly got my first pet fish this way.
So generations of people have bad information and care regimes ingrained into them Plus loads of miss information becomes common “knowledge” such as
fish only grow to the size of the tank,
goldfish only live for a couple of years if you are lucky
How many sad children were told “don’t worry it’s gone to fishy heaven we will get you another one” or “ it’s only a fish they don’t live long”
Until these myths completely disappear and peoples general attitude towards fish changes I can’t see any improvement in people’s attitudes towards fish
Also lots of anglers are told and believe fish don’t feel pain !
If you watch tv you will see fish landed on a trawler or any fishing vessel, you see them laying on deck gasping before they are shoved into a freezer to die, this wouldn’t be accepted if someone did it to a lorry load of lambs
So most humans do not see fish as anything other than protein or disposable pets
I hate loosing a single fish
I agree we definitely have a duty of care
Only today I was asked to rescue about 20 goldfish that have been left in a pond on a empty rental property, if these were any other animal animal rescues and charities would be rushing to help
luckily in my opinion the fish are not in any immediate danger as it’s a very large pond and the fish are active even in the heat we’ve had ok the water is green hence the concern
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