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It has been argued that fish cannot feel pain because they do not have a sufficient density of appropriate nerve fibres. A typical human cutaneous nerve contains 83% Group C nerve fibres, [ 114 ] however, the same nerves in humans with congenital insensitivity to pain have only 24–28% C-type fibres. [ 114 ]
Basically fish don't feel pain how we would consider it. To us, pain is subjective, something we're aware of, etc. Fish lack the capacity for this, but they obviously still have nerve endings and pain receptors.
Fish do not feel pain the way humans do, according to a team of neurobiologists, behavioral ecologists and fishery scientists.
Conventional wisdom has long held that fish cannot—that they do not feel pain. An exchange in a 1977 issue of Field & Stream exemplifies the typical argument.
Scientific evidence suggests that fish feel pain. Their complex nervous systems and behaviors challenge long-held beliefs that fish can be treated with no regard for their welfare.
Yes, fish have pain receptors. Scientists have established that fish possess nerve endings called nociceptors that detect potential harm. Nociceptors are sensory receptors, often called pain receptors, that react to noxious stimuli, such as, say, a barbed hook piercing the lip.
Many a seafood fan has parroted the popular idea that fish and crustaceans do not feel pain. New research, however, suggests that they may, revealing that their nervous system may be...
Following the discovery of pain receptors in fish in the early 21st century, scientists developed behavioral experiments that seemed to show that fish feel pain.
It has been proposed that fish can feel pain both because they have peripheral nociceptors and because neural responses to noxious stimuli have been recorded in the spinal cord, cerebellum, tectum and telencephalon of fish (Sneddon 2004; Dunlop and Laming 2005).
Common sense would suggest that they do feel pain there, and that the assertion that they don't feel pain in the mouths is probably fishing lore. It would be nice to know, for sure.