Who started the myth that fish can’t feel? It’s one of the cruellest myths yet invented by man.  And we swallow it hook line and sinker!  It has prevailed for so long simply because we want it to. But it is a myth and it’s quite wrong. Just because a fish is cold-blooded it doesn’t mean that it can’t feel. Fish are cold- blooded because they have had to adapt to the temperature of the water in which they live. Of course fish can feel. They have brains and well-developed nervous systems.  They have blood like all other animals.  There are even some fish that scream when you hook them…