Pain

NY Times – Catch and Release Debate

August 10, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Catch and release, as well as fish pain, debated (not really, one-sided for the most part) at NY Times’ “Room for Debate.”

Free Book Giveaway

May 5, 2010 ⋅ 16 comments

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Do Fish Feel Pain? by Victoria Braithwaite – Book Introduction

April 24, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

The following is an introduction to this new book, based on a reading of the preface only. I have a quest. The quest involves answering several related questions. I won’t list them all, but the following two questions should give an idea as to the basic gist of them: Do fish suffer when they are [...]

Ah, Man – Do We Gotta Do This Again?

January 14, 2010 ⋅ 17 comments

Janicke Nordgreen is back with bells on! She’s the Norwegian doctoral student from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NSVS) who brought us the morphine and goldfish study last year resulting in this title: “Fish May Actually Feel Pain And React To It Much Like Humans Do.” In October 2009 she defended her PhD-thesis, entitled “Nociception and pain in teleost fish.”