Fish multilation. Anyone read Chinese?

According to the writing, this is a plastic surgery done in Taiwan on the fish to make it look different, therefore fetching better price as pets. The paper says that it is nothing unusual since people have plastic surgeries, and people have been known to cut off dog's tail, cat's nail, ... I am just decribing what's said in the paper, and please do not take it as my view!

The yellow stuff you see in the picture is antibiotics, not dye.
 
Such a crazy world..down further on the page it looks like they are giving injections to the fish to make the top fin bulge up..
 
yeah, totally grossed me out too! it's not like cutting a piece of a nail or anything, it's cutting off a huge part of it's body. It's not even like a dog's tail, it would be like cuttong off our legs.

*shiver*
 
I just want to know how they put those stuff in the body by cutting the tail. It's not like there is a hole after you cut off the tail.
Sorry guys... Have to ask
:D
 
they sever the tail fin AND part of the meaty part of the tail, so the skin is broken. Then it looks like they dissolve or stuff the antibiotics in so it doesn't die from infection.

There's a level of animal cruelty here =/ though maybe they put them asleep first with all those syringes?
 
Yeah, it looks pretty brutal. Then I remembered how, at the last BAR frag workshop I took a pair of scissors and cut a leather coral into 10 pieces. Yes, I know that corals don't have nervous systems like fish do, and all the coral bits grow back. I'm just saying that we can be pretty cruel too. Like stressing RBTAs to make them split, so though the practice is pretty cruel (cutting fish to make them more profitable) we should look at it in the context of what we do too. I mean, look at how we cook lobsters. And really, when we eat fish...what do you think happens? Do you think people euthanize fish before they chop them up? Or do they just chop them up and cook them?

And not to get into anything political, but we treat people worse than that sometimes. (Remember those teens that beat up and KILLED homeless guys ... for FUN?). And let's not forget Abu Gharab!

I still see "Painted Glass Fish" in LFSs...

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7341376#post7341376 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kinetic
they sever the tail fin AND part of the meaty part of the tail, so the skin is broken. Then it looks like they dissolve or stuff the antibiotics in so it doesn't die from infection.

There's a level of animal cruelty here =/ though maybe they put them asleep first with all those syringes?
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Avatar thief! :D
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7341709#post7341709 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Vincerama2
Yeah, it looks pretty brutal. Then I remembered how, at the last BAR frag workshop I took a pair of scissors and cut a leather coral into 10 pieces. Yes, I know that corals don't have nervous systems like fish do, and all the coral bits grow back. I'm just saying that we can be pretty cruel too. Like stressing RBTAs to make them split, so though the practice is pretty cruel (cutting fish to make them more profitable) we should look at it in the context of what we do too. I mean, look at how we cook lobsters. And really, when we eat fish...what do you think happens? Do you think people euthanize fish before they chop them up? Or do they just chop them up and cook them?

And not to get into anything political, but we treat people worse than that sometimes. (Remember those teens that beat up and KILLED homeless guys ... for FUN?). And let's not forget Abu Gharab!

I still see "Painted Glass Fish" in LFSs...

V
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Don't forget that these fish are captive bred, and that this surgery is at least on par (I actually think it is less harsh) with the way we treat food animals.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7341911#post7341911 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lefty
Avatar thief! :D
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it's such a cool picture though!! I put a disclaimer in my signature. =) Don't worry, when I get some cuttlefish I'll take my own =( If you don't want it up I'll take it down. haha but I'm sure you'd like the plug in the sig anyway ;)
 
Some pretty cruel stuff, I bet the mortality rate on that surgery is really high! At the very least maybe a dozen fish are dying for each one that lives. Then the other question is how does the Fish swim when it's all done? I imagine it looks like some sort of crippled fish as it swims around.
 
Just think about what people do to themselves with plastic surgery, some of that stuff is pretty disgusting too.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7342417#post7342417 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xia
Just think about what people do to themselves with plastic surgery, some of that stuff is pretty disgusting too.
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But it's THEIR CHOICE to do it (see Kenny Rogers), the fish are unwilling victims!


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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7342417#post7342417 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xia
Just think about what people do to themselves with plastic surgery, some of that stuff is pretty disgusting too.
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Good point.
 
So...it reads like this:

First page: surgery to remove the infected fins, antibiotics are applied to prevent infections. As a result, the fishs takes the color of the antibiotics.

Second page: cosmetic, but the tail still grows back *shrug*

3rd page: dye
 
Psionicdragon, so you are saying that the article is about TREATING infected fins, versus cosmetic mutilations? That seems more reasonable.

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