You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.
If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.