07-10-2010, 10:05 PM
AlphaDog, sorry, "whack them" is shorthand for hitting with a rock while laying against another rock to kill them quickly, or is it leaving them in the water to stay alive the objectionable part? I was just relaying how I was taught to keep food fresh/safe when I was little. My dad worked in a fish cannery in his tweens to make money for his family when his dad died during the depression. Looking back, he always thought of fish as food/money not something to care about. He never let us have pets, I guess it might have been related to that somehow. I have loved cats and dogs that girlfriends have had. None have ever kept fish for pets. If someone cares about how fish are treated, I would expect they would not go fishing at all.