In this episode Joe takes you fishing!  As an avid steelhead fly-fisherman, Joe wrestles with the topic of whether or not fish feel pain.  Joe's guest this week is Professor Victoria Braithwaite Professor of Fisheries and Biology at Penn State University.  She is also author of the book Do Fish Feel Pain? and a published science report studying the same.  This episode was so packed with information that the full interview simply had to be shared, but in a Patreon only post.  All Patreon STEMPunX receive the Bonus Interview as a reward for being a part of the team!  #ThankYouPatrons

Show Note Links:

Do Fish Feel Pain? - By Professor Victoria Braithwaite

For those who want to read the opposite view, after all this is about science, and knowledge is power.   Why fish do not feel pain. - By Brian Key

And a peer review by Victoria Braithwaite, and Paula Droege, (2016) Why human pain can’t tell us whether fish feel pain. 

Nociception: In nociception, intense chemical (e.g., chili powder in the eyes), mechanical (e.g., cutting, crushing), or thermal (heat and cold) stimulation of sensory nerve cells called nociceptors produces a signal that travels along a chain of nerve fibers via the spinal cord to the brain

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Guest:

Professor Victoria Braithwaite - Penn State University

The Dorothy and Lloyd Huck Chair in Behavioral Biology

Professor of Fisheries and Biology

Music by:

Kit Garoutte

https://kitgaroutte.net

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Editing by Joe and Michael.