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Fish, the largest category of exploited animals, are sentient beings who suffer the worst abuses. Your donation helps enable our advocacy on their behalf.?Fish Feel is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.? |
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March 29, 2025
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Reminder:?TODAY?is?World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming! There are so many ways to participate, please do! Here are to help you do so.?(We will again be handing out information at the National Aquarium, in Baltimore.)
 This past weekend, we handed out coloring books and fact sheets at a World Water Day event that included?¡°,¡±?whereby children could fish a week before the official start of fishing season in Maryland.
Youth ¡°¡±?are held across the country by government agencies and other entities. These events encourage children to torture/kill animals for ¡®fun,¡¯ and enable them to do so. Please help oppose them by complaining to local officials about them, and by letting others know how cruel they are. If you¡¯d like information to hand out at such events, contact us at: Info@....
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Free Conference: On World Aquatic Animal Day (4/3), George Washington University¡¯s Animal Legal Education Initiative will host ¡°.¡± The first day will focus on ¡°legal and advocacy efforts for aquatic animals globally." The conference is open to everyone, and available in-person and on-line. Advance registration is required, with recordings of the day available online afterwards.
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Fish Feel¡¯s Mary Finelli is an invited speaker at?: a celebration of the animal rights movement. The event will be at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., on August 2nd. Presentations during the day will be followed with a vegan banquet and evening entertainment. Ticket discounts for the presentations and/or the gala are available through 4/6. (Tickets are also available for online access to the presentations.)
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?will be our first outreach tabling event of the season, at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., ?on April 27th. We will also have a booth at?, in Bethesda, Md., on May 25th. We are lining up summer events, too.
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Mary was a guest on the?, with the wonderful host, Mariquita Solis, on February 6th.
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 , an award-winning expos¨¦ about the cruelty and environmental harm caused by the removal of marine animals from coral reefs for aquariums, can now be streamed from various sources. tells of actor Martin Sheen¡¯s involvement with the documentary. Fish Feel is glad to be among its Partners. See also related?.
The?¡°¡±?has just been introduced in Congress to prohibit import into the U.S. of protected reef species taken through unsustainable or destructive practices.
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GOOD NEWS!?Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court for?fish farming?in federal ocean waters due to environmental law violations. In 2018 and 2020, federal courts struck down efforts to establish fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. The recent ruling, however, does not apply to six projects that had already been authorized.
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Happy Spring! It¡¯s?Lent?now, too, when observers often opt for fish (though observers are supposed to abstain from meat, and fish flesh used as food?is?meat).?If you know any who do, it¡¯s an opportune time to let them ¨Cor anyone else- know about .
Fishy Greetings:
photo credit:?Ness Delpero (click on image for video)
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Thank you, very much, for your interest in fish issues, and especially for your concern and compassion for fishes.
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~Sea Animals - Don't Eat Them~
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