-....................it is not true...........................-
P3TA paid for a study to prove fishing hurts, they tried to bury the results because the study proved that fish do not feel pain the same way we do, and around the mouth, in and out they feel nothing, they don't have a developed nervous system that would sense or transmit pain as we do and do not have the brain capacity to remember pain or a traumatic event...so being caught doesn't have a lasting affect on them as it would on us
cut a big hunk of meat off a fish and put him in a livewell with other fish and in a few seconds it will be reacting and calmly swimming just like the other fish because it doesn't hurt the fish, it will react to you cutting it because it can feel but it can't feel pain as we do....