meanmutton: Comparing fishing to the deliberate, slow torture of a mammal is dishonest.

The fish probably disagree.

cryinoutloud: It's a farking ad, once again. I'm surprised they didn't say "our great outdoor heritage" or something. She must not be well-trained.
It's funny how many of our favorite pastimes involve killing off something so we can party more, and someone can make more money. It's our heritage to kill off everything on earth. If it wasn't, then why haven't we stopped, even when we can see that there's a big, big problem with it?

Humans are omnivorous predators. We've been doing this for millions of years, even before we were humans. Over the eons, we have developed a unique talent - far more than any other species that we know of in the universe - to both kill anything we see and also ourselves. This, despite not having any significant teeth or claws to speak of.

We have entire institutions dedicated to being predators against each other, and in every possible, conceivable way, with every technique and tool we can think of, or with no tools. In fact this way of living is probably the reason why we developed intelligence, opposable thumbs, tools and many of our physiological features in the first place.

We don't even have to eat meat any longer, because we've become so incredibly secure as predators that we can actually grow thousands of square miles of delicious vegetable and fruit plants without having to seriously worry about any other animals competing with us for them.  They'll show up, but we have dozens of ways to deal with them. Shiat, we've got animals that we've bred to be genetically predisposed to being our slaves, loving their job, and dealing with those pesky animals so that we don't have to.

Yes, catching and eating fish is legitimately part of our predator heritage.

FWIW, this sounds like the TPC of local fishing or something.  Most people out there probably aren't actually fishing; they're likely just there to hang out. There's probably a lot of drunk people, which is great.

This sturgeon fishing thing probably raises a lot of money in the form of sturgeon fishing licenses, which are likely used to conserve them the rest of the year.  That's how African big game hunts work - they kill a few animals but the net increase is far more because the park gets a lot of funding to pay a police force and to buy more land to protect more animals. It's bad optics, but the end result is positive for conservation.