USE OF LIVE BAIT
Cruelty To “Animals”? INHUMAN FISHING PRACTICES (By T*l*»ranh—Prww Association.' CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. Whether the u*e of live bait forfishing 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 came within the scope of the societies’ work was another question raided, but it was not put to the vote. A member who has been an angler for 70 years said that the use of bullies was inhuman. They were put on 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 a trout they were torn off the hook/s when still alive and were thrown into the river, probably to die a lingering death from starvation with fractured jaws.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 14 May 1935, Page 6
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