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Published online 30 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030428-9
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New evidence that fish feel pain
Trout study may fuel anti-angling debate.
New research hints that rainbow trout may feel pain when impaled on anglers' hooks.
The findings, from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh, shake a long-held belief that fish lack the brain regions essential for experiencing pain in a similar way to higher vertebrates and humans.
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