Salmon Fishing USA

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PETA is protesting one of the planned entertainments at an upcoming national veterinarians conference in Seattle. The vets asked the Pike Place Fish Market's fishmongers to demonstrate their fish throwing skills. The fishmongers do exhibitions which replicate their daily routine of throwing purchased fish to one another in a showy routine. The purchased fish is thrown to the other fishmonger who wraps the fish for the customer. We've seen it the performances: the fishmongers never seem to drop

Sea Kittens are getting a little more press these days, as PETA continues it's ongoing campaign. I blogged about this months ago, and since then, they've gotten about 4K signatures on their anti-fishing petition. PZ Myers can do that in a day on any poll or petition on the web, so I'm more amused than concerned.The effort hit todays papers in the form of an editorial cartoon by Mike Luckovich:PETA's Sea Kitten campaign has been getting more and more press, most of it humorous, since sending ou

Hear the latest? PETA wants to rename fish as “sea kittens.” All in an effort to stop fishing. People don’t seem to like fish. They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you’re swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by. Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to f