Re: NANFA-L-- euthanasia

dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:51 -0500

Moon, a substantial body of data agree with you, that freezing
euthanasia is without pain for poikilothermic vertebrates, and I've
routinely used it WHEN I WAS ALLOWED TO. However, three different
times, Animal Care and Use Committees have denied it, and required me
to use chemical euthanasia. Go figure. Dave

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----- Original Message -----
From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:11 am
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- euthanasia
> I hate to say it but is all this complex stuff really necessary to
> kill a
> fish? I just put fish I want to kill in a plastic bag and freeze
> them. When I
> think of all the fish I've killed while fishing by using them as
> bait or eating
> them I sometimes wonder why I even go that far. Not to mention
> all the fish
> that have died in transit from the collecting site or even from
> the stress of
> the net. I do try my best to keep my fish alive both while
> collecting and
> while keeping them but is anything really going to be stress free
> when killing
> a fish? Freezing them seems as stress free as anything I have
> seen discussed
> here.
>
> Moon
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