Sister Lena is extremely misguided if she thinks fishing is something of which the Lord would approve (The Argus, July 20).

It is scientifically proven that fish can and do suffer pain.

How would we humans like to be suddenly hoisted up to fly through the air with a hook entrenched in and gouging our mouths, which then take our full body weight as we are whipped around airborne on a line?

How would we like to be unceremoniously thrown back into the water from a great height, torn, hurting and injured, taking who knows how long to recover from the shock and damage or, perhaps, to die?

Or, worse still, how would we like to be taken out of our normal environment, left lying around to thrash in panic and slowly suffocate to death?

The Bible says: "Thou shalt not kill" and "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain". We are educated that we do not need to kill for food. So where is the good in fishing?

-Elizabeth Taylor, Furze Road, High Salvington