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FISH STORIES



a. An Akron man took his daughters fishing in Tampico Bay in Mexico.. and was spiked by a large catfish who severed a hand artery. He was able to get medical attention before he died of the profuse bleeding.

b. Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press, went fishing and caught a hook in the fish' eye. That was her last day fishing.





a seal, one of the untold trillions of nonfish victimsof nets owned by the owners of the Washington Times and other fishing groups. Turtles, dolphins, whales, octopi, every sea creaturespecies has been caught in these nets, including humanswimmers and scuba divers.



c. PW, at the Soldier and Sailors' Home in Washington, caught the same fish out of the pond virtually every day for 10 years.. each time pulling the hook from the throat.. sometimes with flesh attached. PW

died of throat cancer.  (Atty Robert Kennedy went to a hospital to be treated for his flyfishing hook which was imbedded in his nose. http://www.riverkeepers.org )

d. St. Blaze is considered by Catholics the patron saint of protection from fish byproducts since he is said to protect the lives of those choking on fish bones. http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg/cathveg.msnw

e. One national cancer association reports that fish consumption is related to stomach cancer.. those countries with the highest fish consumption having the highest rates. Included are Korea, Japan, Chile, Norway and others.

f. The EPA issues 3500 warnings against fish consumption in one year alone.. because of high levels of pcb's (polychlorinated biphenols),  arsenic, chromium, mercury, cadmium, lead zinc etc.                              

These sea lions have been slaughtered by fishermen competing with them for fish. Baby seals



as well are clubbed partly for fur, partly to remove them as competitors in the fish supply.



Dolphins are strangled in tuna fish nets.



g. One fisherman reports that after seeing the fishes gasp for air in the bottom of his boat.. as they slowly suffocate.. he will never fish again.

h. Syndee Brinkman: I went snorkeling and saw how gently the fish welcomed us into their world.. and how violently we welcomed them into ours.. I never ate an animal or fish again.

i. EB was a fisherman all his life and lived into his mid nineties. He stopped fishing after he dreamt one night that he was tiny and a fish was very large. The fish had him on a hook. The sale of fish brings 54 million to the state of Maryland, whose governor has prevailed on 3 chains in the Washington area to

begin again to sell Chesapeake fish despite the pfiesteria disease. Pfiesteria is caused by the massive amounts of pig waste dumped into the rivers near the Chesapeake by NC, VA, MD and other pig factory farms. http://www.hogwatch.org

One factor of many in the disease of the fish might be the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, which raises the temperature of the water in the area.





The US Navy has been sued for whale deaths caused by its sonar. http://www.cousteau.org http://www.nrdc.orghttp://www.hsus.org



j.  NPR caller, Oct 27, 97: My mother never got to see the same military physician twice, so it was years before medical detectives realized that her Saturday headaches were caused by her Friday fisheating with an allergy to iodine.

k.  NPR November 6, 1997: Dr. James Porter of the Univ. of Athens at Georgia is studying the many new fishes diseases such as black band and white pox. He says that increased shipping, increased pollution, and overfishing (perhaps an oxymoron) are factors for the rise.

In one year, says the EPA, the coral diseases have quadrupled. Snorkelers

are advised that coral is not a dead rock but a colony of living animals

and therefore asked not to remove them.



l. U.S. News and World Report Nov 24, 1997:  One of the strains causing

  food poisoning in shellfish is Vibria Vulnificus.



m. The phrase 'fresh fish' is an oxymoron.



n. Prince Philip is one of many in a coalition concerned about fisheries

  exhaustion. NPR in May reported that many penguin babies are expected

  to die because there are not enough fishes for them to eat. Whether one

eats fishes or does not, the dying fisheries need to be restocked.



o. There have been many fraternity house deaths from choking in an attempt

to swallow live goldfish and other fish. (May God bless those souls.)



p. Many fishermen and women have drowned, e.g. Jerry Garcia's father.



q. 150,000 turtles drown every year in shrimp nets, says Eric Bates

  of the Texas Observer  (For the article write Manny Pastreich

  mpastreich@compuserve.com) There are also over 100,000 dolphins caught

  in tuna fish and other nets, and many whales are caught in lobster lines.

  Lisa Simpson of the Simpsons rescued a fish caught in a 6 pack plastic

  holder and threw him back into the water.

  For information on how ocean birds are harmed by fishes' nets

  write 100302.1616@compuserve.com

r. While the UNFAO The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says the oceans are dying and there are not enough fishes for those who want to eat them, the Dept. of Interior in July sponsored a week of fishing. http://www.fao.orgBRs.

s. The Texas Dept. of Health states that 245 people have been victims of illness from oysters in Galveston Bay. The bacterium is Vibrio parahaemolyticus. 208 people have had oyster illness in the Northwest.

t. The Oklahoma Dept. of Env. Quality has asked pregnant women to avoid

  catfish in certain parts of Oklahoma because of high insecticide content

  in the waters and in the fishes. (JanaWilson@aol.com)

u.  With asbestos in Lake Michigan, pcb's in the livers of polar bears in Alaska, oyster contamination in the Gulf from the runoff of

  the Mississippi, lipophilic insecticides in Lake Erie, pfiesteria

  in the Atlantic seaboard ..arsenic, chromium and mercury, pcb's,

  insecticides, fish killing old oil and every other toxin in the oceans,

shellfish in the NE

  eating unprocessed human waste, where is there fresh fish?

  Farmed salmon in the NW, says an NPR guest on Feb 24th, can be released

  into the wild exploding new bacteriae into the ocean.



v. Arsenic poisoning (arsenic from the oceans is concentrated in the

  flesh of fishes) creates lesions and warts on the hands. NPR reported

on Dec 29, 1998 that many million in Bangladesh are dying of arsenic

  poisoning from its concentration in well water, and in water of the

  delta.



w.  Dr. Owen Parrett, MD has spoken of the worms present in Rocky Mtn.

trout. In Dec of 98, AP reported on a parasite worm affecting many

trout in Colorado, Idaho, Montana etc. The parasite causes the fishes

to turn in circles until they die.



x. Government recalls in Jan 99 18,000 lbs of Hansung salted yellow

  croaker because of fear of deadly botulism.



y. An El Cajon California man reports that lightning struck

  the metal poles (hooks and wires also?) of his group's lightning

  rod fishing poles. They abandoned their fishing that day.

Campaign For the Abolition of Angling  pisces@pisces.demon.co.uk

  is an international organization working to end the cruelty of

  fish suffocation and fish throat ripping.

z. The most dangerous of all occupations is fishing

in the ocean. The book The Storm recounts some of the



countless drownings and net stranglings of fishermen and women.

WORLD PEACE comes more quickly when nations do not compete for dwindling fish supplies.



Anaphylactic shock which can cause fatalities isone effect of shellfish eating.

Shellfish are the 2nd cause of hepatitis in the US.

Fishes are getting sexual deformities from the feedlot urine of cows on whom female hormones have been forced.

http://www.notmilk.com This has resulted in the US having 8 times the prostate cancer rate that Japan does as well as in a 9 year old having twins.

August 29, 2000: NPR focused on melanoma. One of the doctor hosts

mentioned that Japanese have higher esophageal melanoma incidence.

Japan is among the top 5 in fish consumption. Fish flesh has high

concentrations of metal contaminants.

J Marcus: Anything with a face is meat. That includes fish.

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Night Court: Give me no dairy, seafood, or roadkill.

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Edith Bunker: I fixed you some tongue.  Archie: I'm not going to

  eat anything that was in a cow's mouth. Fix me some eggs, Edith.



Why Mad Fish? Factory farmed fish are sometimes fed the bone meal of other animals. http://www.madcow.org 7000 articles http://www.nofishing.net



http://www.petitiononline.com/seal



http://www.pcrm.org http://www.ivu.org