How would you design fishing equipment to minimize the pain of being fished?

[cypres]

How would you design the fishing rod differently?

How would you design equipment for fishing ships?

Example: hooks with an integrated numbing mechanism

Optional condition: it has to appeal to people who think fish don't feel pain, or don't care whether they do. E.g it needs to be as efficient as it is today, and not voluntary or skippable, like having to buy a tool or attach something.

[FeikevA]

I think this charity is very promising:
https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/post/introducing-fish-welfare-initiative

[Preety_India]

 

I think the most safe method is the most natural way. During tides, the water recedes and fishes struggle for water on the sands and die within minutes when they don't get water.  So probably lowering a large box that has a slider beneath made up of holes, tiny holes. When this box is lifted by a crane mechanism and then loaded on the ship, they can push a button for the slider, this will separate the bottom of the box exposing the slider with holes and the water will flow out making the surface of the slider dry on which there are fish that will die immediately with no water, that looks to me like a quick and least painful.. This will reduce the possibility of nets getting stuck or lost in the waters that cause a lot of damage to fishes who get stuck in them.

I don't think any chemical should be used. Because any type of chemical or drug deposit in a tissue is bad. 

Nets cause a lot of long term harm to sealife. Hooks can cause a lot of pain because the fish is alive when you are removing the hooks. 

So I guess the painless  method is to allow the water to leave through a porous surface meanwhile the fish die due to suffocation. 

 

 

I found this another method to reduce ghost fishing. Use of biodegradable nets as in this article. 

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/19/biodegradable-gps-tagged-fishing-net-could-help-save-dolphins-and-whales

 

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by Preety_India