Painful for fish (From Oxford Mail)

Painful for fish

11:10am Thursday 10th July 2008 in Letters

I see there is going to be an attempt to keeping potentially erring young people on the straight and narrow by encouraging them to take up angling (Oxford Mail, July 4).

Unfortunately, although fish do not understand social policy, it is generally agreed that they have enough sentience to feel a hook through their mouths.

ROGER JENKING Joan Lawrence Place Headington Oxford