USE OF LIVE BAIT
CRUELTY QUESTION RAISED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Whether the use of live bait for fishing is cruelty to the bait was a question which exercised members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The meeting decided to leave the matter with the chairman with a view to obtaining an opinion from the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Whether live bait was an animal and therefore whether it came within the scope of the society's work was another question raised, but it was not put to a vote. A member who had been an angler for 70 years said that the use of bullies' was inhuman. They were put on the hooks alive. The line was then cast out into the river and the bullies sometimes remained on the river bed for four hours. If they did not have the luck to be swallowed by trout they were torn off the hooks when-still alive and were thrown into the river, probably to die a lingering death from starvation with fractured jaws.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 7
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178USE OF LIVE BAIT Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 7
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