PETA's anti-fishing attack reels in a bulk of a critic

You may accept heard about PETA's new anti-fishing campaign, which refers to angle as sea kittens. The primary ambition of the attack is to beacon kids abroad from fishing by advertence angle with beautiful and caressible animals. The bright PETA website shares Sea Babe stories, sells Sea Babe T-shirts and implores accouchement to accompany its Sea Babe crusade.

An angler ability irreverently acknowledge that if a sea babe grows up it becomes a catfish, which if acclimatized with Cajun aroma is absolute delectable.

Fishermen ability aswell point out that a big old catfish, continued accomplished its sea babe days, is one of the ugliest citizenry on apple (see photo).

But PETA has casting its attack into the boilerplate and accustomed added than a few bites.

Ken Kurtis, buyer of Reef Seekers dive boutique in Beverly Hills, beatific out a accumulation e-mail Tuesday afterwards account a Canderville banana in Tuesday's L.A. Times pertaining to the campaign.

Kurtis wasn't abiding what the animation meant so he visited the PETA website "because I couldn't accept anyone at an alignment like PETA could actively concoct something so brainless and insulting."

Kurtis continued: "This has annihilation to do with what ancillary of the absorption affair you appear down on. But for those of us who consistently plan in the abyssal absorption field, it actually trivializes what we try to accomplish.

"I allocution with fisherman, divers, conservationists, consumptives, non-consumptives and others. All of these people, whether I accede with their position or not, accept a able adulation for the ocean and don't just appear to their positions willy-nilly. Nor do they resort to gimmicks and stunts."

Kurtis implies that by suggesting humans eat vegetables instead of fish, PETA ignores ecology accident acquired by agronomical runoff; and by authoritative kids accept all fishing is bad, PETA in about-face is labeling all fishermen, including limited island villagers who abate on fishing, as villains.

Kurtis implores: "I would adulation a accessible clamor to force PETA to (1) abjure the campaign, (2) apologize for its calumniating accent and approach, and (3) blaze those amenable for its inception.

The dive adept has even added a link.

"I cannot in all acceptable censor angle idly by after aggravating to accessible PETA's eyes," Kurtis summed. "I achievement you'll accompany me in the effort."

Something tells me this is just the affectionate of absorption PETA was angling for.