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Who would have thought that reading about fishes could be so entertaining and educational? After all, I was taught to believe that a fish is a fish is a fish is a fish, … just automatons peddling water waiting for food and sex, sex and food, food and sex, until they become food to other fishes. Other than different colors and shapes, their lives were unremarkable and just plain boring.I was so wrong.In opening Jonathan Balcombe’s book, I fell into "Alice in Wonderland" waters where the characters come to life, - but real life, in an underwater civilization that I didn’t know existed. I set aside all I thought I knew about fishes after reading Chapter 1 – The Misunderstood Fish - which challenged the teachings on which I had based my bias about them.Balcombe first leads through the basics, the understanding of fishes’ senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch and expanded to added senses of magnetic fields, electricity, and pressure.Then his really challenging work begins: fishes’ pain, consciousness, awareness, stress, and joy followed by intelligence, tools, planning, and winning competitions with primates. Not one to hold back, Balcombe next leads us to the cultural pages of Fishdom with social contracts and societal cooperation, democracy, and peacekeeping.Who knew?I could relax my poor brain a bit when he finally ventured into the sex lives and parenting styles of fishes. (Gone was my long held belief that all female fishes let go of their eggs to wherever the waters took them.)Before reading the last chapter, I braced myself for a round of proselytizing paragraphs on what is wrong about harming fish leading to a condemnation. But no, as a consummate scientist and brilliant writer, Balcombe simply lays out the facts clearly and calmly of how fishes and fish populations are suffering and how current human actions are irreparably damaging Earth’s underwater world. He has finished walking us through the science.Now he leaves it up to us to decide what to do.
I am so grateful to Dr. Balcombe for this highly informative, insightful and utterly readable journey into piscene sentience. I urge anyone who cares about life on this planet, and has empathy for other living non-human creatures - fish in particular - to read it and to buy copies for your friends.Dr. Balcombe's thoughtful collection of research and anecdotes solidly validates what we scuba divers and others who have interacted with fish have long known in our bones: that fish are fully conscious, feeling creatures - no less so than creatures who walk the land. They protect their nests, are often loyal to their mates, recognize members of their clan, hunt with intent, strategy and sometimes cooperation; know fear, know pleasure. No one can doubt this who has ever watched a fish cleaning station, or, who has ever experienced a grouper come up from the depths and go into a cleaning pose just for a gentle human chin scratch. They find both purpose and pleasure in touch.We humans have determinedly objectified and commoditized fish, along with crustaceans other sea creatures. That makes more acceptable, the stunning scale and methods of our harvest and 'processing.' In trawlers laden with many millions of dying fish trapped or vacuumed from the sea, we cannot imagine individual lives. We 'fish' their mating aggregations, depriving them of adequate chance to balance their populations; we leave monofilament death traps throughout the world's oceans, while causing species to collapse one after the next. Then, we scale or skin them alive if it adds efficiency to our industry. And just for fun, there's that all American sport of fishing. We might "kindly" release these poor creatures after giving a human the "thrill of the catch" - but only after piercing holes in their faces, mouths and eyes, maiming them for life. Who can imagine there is no pain for the animal in this 'sporting' activity?So, yes, thank you Dr. Balcombe for putting it out there in such a credible, accessible book: these creatures are not solely the objects or the commodities that would more comfortably fit our paradigm of blithely emptying our rivers, lakes and oceans of them to fill the insatiable and ever growing human appetite. Rather, however inconveniently for us, they really do have a conscious life and they really do feel pleasure as well as all of the pain and misery that humans inflict upon them.Perhaps, finally, the scientific community is coming away from long ridiculing animal sentience as stilly anthropomorphism, and understanding that we are all from the same basic ancestry, if a ways back - with the same basic structures within us. It seems with each passing day, another discovery reveals - surprise! - what we have in common - even with creatures who live very different lives, in very different environments. if as Dr. Balcombe relates, drugs that agitate or relax have the same effect on a fish as they do on a human - well, maybe a neuron is a neuron, after all.Dr. Balcombe's book is a terrific contribution to appreciating what is in our midst. It encourages me to imagine that at some point before its too late, we will respect and more profoundly appreciate our fellow travelers on this glorious blue orb - whatever their form, and whatever their habitat, watery or otherwise. This book steps us in that direction. I.e., that we might just yet come to appreciate, on the one hand, how closely they are kin, while on the other, appreciate their having evolved capabilities, senses and experiences exquisite to their situation that we will never have, and may never fully know. Let us come to realize these things before we pull every last one out of the water.
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