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• Business: Food and Related Products: Meat and Seafood: Seafood: Commercial Harvesting  (74)
• Recreation: Outdoors: Fishing  (3,217)
• Science: Agriculture: Fisheries  (80)
• Science: Environment: Biodiversity: Conservation: Fish  (25)
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CA Campaign for Fishing Political action group dedicated to preserving recreation fishing. Includes news, features, campaigns and forums. UK. http://www.gone-fishing.info/

Fishinghurts.com Argues that fish suffer plenty when being hunted and killed. Also argues that eating fish is usually unhealthy to humans and that hunting fish kills many other animals. Part of the PETA family of sites. http://www.fishinghurts.com/

BBC News: Fish do feel pain, scientists say Research by a team from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh, is published in Proceedings B of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. The argument over whether fish feel pain has long been a subject of dispute between anglers and animal rights activists, and there are conflicting studies. (April 30, 2003) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2983045.stm