If you are on the beach and someone is fishing

[LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife]

Please go around the back of them and don't allow your dog near their gear. If your dog gets a hook in it's mouth it's not the fisherman's fault it's yours.

Leave the fish alone and the dogs will leave you alone.

@AgileGreenSeal I swim in the sea all year round too. Where I live we are very much in the minority - perhaps 20 of us. Hundreds of dog walker though.

No it doesn’t mean that. Obviously some dogs are prolific killers and others are big softies.

Protecting the planet! Are you even remotely serious? Dear god woman, words fail me.

So humans are not supposed to protect the planet? But dogs are? Without thumbs?

The prolific killers of wildlife must be very much in the minority. Dogs in towns and cities wouldn't have the opportunity. Those prolific killers must have a phenomenal activity level to up the average to such an extent. I'd be really interested to hear your source.

Dogs are mostly used on farms to kill rats. A good ratter can kill up to 2,000 rats in one day. Dogs are increasingly being used to hunt rats in urban environments.

I wasn’t bothering any fish this morning and the dog definitely didn’t leave me alone!

Impressive. I guess they are useful for something then.

I know someone who got hit by a person casting as well. The barbed hook embedded in her face and necessitated a trip to a-a&e for special removal. I was irrationally angry about it. She took it in stride because she was hiking down to fish herself.

i get really nervous when people are fishing when we go to the beach to swim. I really don’t want to get caught on a hook either from someone casting or one that drifts in the water.

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@Liquorish grow up.

Ban dogs and fishermen! Can't the beach be a peaceful place?!

It's possible to refuse to have children as well as dogs for this reason 😀 Humans and dogs are both terrible for the environment.

I walked along the beach the other day with my dog and picked up eight discarded hooks along a 100m stretch of beach. The really nasty multi-pronged things. Luckily my dog has no interest in the hooks, but it could have been disastrous should a child or curious dog have happened upon them before I did. So it’s all well and good avoiding people fishing but they really need to take their shit home with them.

We do tend to avoid beach fishermen like the plague ever since we were stalked by one in the dark, though.

The idea that humans protect the planet is beyond laughable. The only thing the planet needs protecting from is us. Where have you been that you don't seem to have the faintest idea of the environmental and ecological disaster we've created for us and everything else we share the planet with. To say nothing of potential nuclear war, deforestation, mining, out of control pollution of land, sea and oceans. This endless destruction is beneficial to absolutely nothing on earth but the human race. How can any of that be seen as "protecting".

Even if they did, unless on an island that previously had no predators, the impact on wildlife in general from cats & dogs on overall populations isn't significant.

Replace dog with child.. fisherman leaves dangerous sharp piece of metal where a toddler can get it.

Would replies to this thread be the same?

Of course - dog owners have a responsibility to keep their dogs under control - that's enshrined in the law.

Lovely! A cute picture of a fish being hooked in its mouth for sport. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

There's no excuse for using a barbed hook, even for sea fishing.

But that's dogs being used by humans to kill vermin on farms, not pet dogs going round killing wildlife willy nilly.

As opposed to being ground up for pet food?

There will always be stupid townies people around when it comes to sharing spaces with others taking part in totally legal outdoor / countryside pursuits. People who know fuck all about such things will wander about showing no common sense whatever, despite it being bleeding obvious that they should keep a sensible distance between themselves and whatever is going on.

@Soontobe60

Nothing cute about it but perfectly acceptable to record your catch. I have eaten the fish. It was delicious.