Do fish feel pain?
I had a touch of insomnia last night which meant I managed to catch a fascinating BBC radio programme discussing whether fish can feel pain…
The scientist Victoria Braithwaite has been studying whether fish have the same pain receptors and neural wiring that detects pain. Her evidence shows that fish are indeed able to detect pain and this affects their behaviour. This could have a dramatic impact on to how we view fish and our current fishing of them.
