 It's ridiculous. It's just fish. They're only fish? So this is where the law is stemming from? It's going to be a $5,000 fine. So just letting you know from May 21st onwards. Whatever. How are you, buddy? Have you caught anything today? Pufferfish. Pufferfish. And what did you do with them? You threw them back or you keep them? Throw them back. All right. Well, I'm Chief Animal Sentience Officer. There's been new legislation passed on the sentience of fish recently. So they're going to start enacting changes, starting with this whole coast. So there's a designated area. So they're going to start protecting fish based on their sentience. Do you know what sentience is? Well, fish feel pain. They suffer. They have a nervous system. So the animals in these waters will start to be protected because hooking them in the face and dragging them out the ocean is proven now to cause them extreme suffering. So we like to put it like this to fishermen, like if there was a dog and I put a smacker on the end of a hook and I caught the dog and dragged him into the ocean to drown him. This is the same feeling that the fish gets getting suffocated out of the ocean. So we're going to let you today off because we're actually just letting people know about this. We put a massive post out. There's been media about this. I don't know if you've seen it. No? Okay. So very soon this place here will be protected animals. Well, you can't fish here. That'll be enacted in May 21st. May 21st? Yeah. So just letting you know that you won't be getting fined, but from May 21st onwards, there'll be a fine for causing pain and suffering. Yeah, a very hefty one too. Well, they'll start off at 5,000 and then if it happens again and again, we're going to treat it like dog cruelty. Okay, so just letting you guys know about that. What do you think about that, buddy? Do you all explain it to them what I was saying about fish sentience? Yeah, so I'm a Chief Fish Sentience Officer and we're protecting the fish in these oceans. They're starting off here and there's a big designated area where all fish will be protected. They'll have rights because they feel pain and suffer. And if you're dragging puffer fish out the ocean, it's like dragging a dog into the ocean to drown them by their face. Huh? Sorry? No, this is for our own protection. We're doing this because fishermen have known to assault us. Fishermen have assaulted us before because they don't like, they feel like, you know, they want to do this for pleasure, a hobby. But when we start to protect the animals, you know, they feel like they're getting their hobby taken away. Yeah, look, we don't want anyone getting a $5,000 fine. You know, like, I don't want you to. And if you didn't know, like, we put out enough media, but it should be on channel 10 before the 21st anyway. So we're giving you the, you know, the courtesy of letting you know. All right, no worries. Hey, buddy, how are you? What's up, buddy? Are you with the council or waterways or something? Animal Sentience Authorities, yeah. It doesn't matter who I ring and dub in. I'm a scuba diver. We've both been scuba divers. Yeah, what's going on? There's people fishing from this platform up here, and it says no fishing. Come take me, I'll have a look right now. Sink is in their face. All right. I've got three buckets of sinkers that big. So they're snapping line off in the ocean and they're harming the fish. I've had divers free of fishing line. It's not good. Okay. They might not be fishing, but there's a sign there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this is all protected waters as of May 21st. Mates and I have freed, have freed eels, turtles. Yeah. You name it. So this is why we are reenacting the legislation for fish sentience because they feel pain and suffer. Okay. When we got here this morning, there were four blokes. Four blokes here. All right, we're going to take some photographs. And that sign there, you read that sign, no fishing from Platinum. Well, it'll be no fishing all the way up this coast soon. See, I rang, I rang fisheries and they said it's up to the council. I rang the council and they said it's up to waterways. I rang waterways and waterways said it's up to the council. Everybody's passing the buck, no one wants to know about it. You ring up, you ring up and dog people in, nothing happens. Well, we're trying to do something about it today about fishing, for sure. Have a look at the sign here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll definitely, I'll take a photo of that. No fishing from Platinum, up the top. Spear fishing prohibited yet, so we understand. I've never seen people spear fishing, but there's regularly people fishing off this coast. Well, what people fail to realise is, it's not just the fish that they hook in the face, it's the, all the by-catch from the fishing line and the hooks that get caught in the other animals' face. Well, just a few weeks ago, there was a flathead down there, obviously a female, there's massive flathead down there. On what they call the short pipe, which is that thing. Yep. Right, it goes out there. And fortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, this flathead had a big sinker and I was able to grab the sinker, grab my knife and cut it off for him. Good work. Still had the hook in its gob, but, you know. Yeah, you did what you could. It took off, that's it. Yeah, we need to prevent this from happening. Thanks a lot for letting us know, mate. Appreciate it. Hey buddy, how you going, mate? So what are you targeting here today? Anything I can eat. Anything you can eat? Yeah. So I was just talking to the gentleman down here. There's been new legislation that will come in on May 21st. So I'm the Chief Animal Sentience Officer from the Animal Sentience Authorities. And these coasts here will be enacting new legislation on the protection of sea animals. Because there's new study come out that shows they have a central nervous system, they feel pain and suffer. So when we're dragging them out of the ocean and he was dragging a puffer fish out and then throwing them back in, causing extreme pain and suffering. So we like to use the analogy about the dogs. So if there was a dog here, we had to say a doggy treat and we caught the dog and they were stunned and then we dragged them in the ocean to drown them. It's the same feeling for the fish. Okay, this is what the study found. So we're going to let people off with a warning today because they don't know. We've spread it across the media. It will be on channel 10, I believe, on the 19th of May just leading up. But we're going to start enacting it throughout this coast. This will be the testing grounds for it. But we're trying to raise the awareness to the public about the fish sentience, see animals feeling pain. And the fines will start at $5,000 from the 21st of May onwards, 2021. All right? Yeah. So what is the goal now? Is it car fishing or what? From May 21st, the animals here will be protected. Okay, it doesn't matter what species. You said you can't fish anywhere. Sorry? You can't catch any fish. From May 21st onwards. Really? Yeah, fish feel pain. They suffer. Okay, we're starting to protect the sea animals here. Okay? And not only just the fish he's targeting, but the lines that snap off. Okay? They get caught in turtles' faces. Okay? There was a flathead down here. Just a gentleman told me how to hook and a sinker in their face swimming around. If you can imagine how painful that would be for the animal. So we don't feel like this, this is a hobby that people do. It's a hobby. It's a pastime. It's just skateboarding or playing darts, except you're playing with the fish's pain. Okay, I can't even eat them. They'll kill them straight away. Yeah, well, you know, we also believe that because they have consciousness that you're taking their experience of life. Are you saying the boats aren't allowed to fish either? No, no, no. Because they dragged them up the rock. No, no, no. Well, these boats here, the legislation will be enacted on to those boats as well. From May 21st we start. That sounds ridiculous. It's just fish. They're only fish? They're only fish. There's a study that just recently come out. I don't know about it. You don't want to? Okay. It's the stupidest rule of the world. Well, you know, we protect dogs. We protect dogs with dog cruelty laws. It'll be an off... It's the fish, mate. Millions and billions of dollars. They feel pain the same way dogs do. So this is where the law is stemming from? It's going to be a five... It's just a joke. It's a joke. It's going to be a $5,000 fine. So just letting you know from May 21st onwards... Whatever. That's a f***ing joke. No. It's not a joke. They feel pain. They feel pain and suffer. New study. Yeah, of course they do. They do. They're like a dog. So what? If someone was torturing a dog, we would call the RSPCA. You know what I mean? I don't know. I'll be a f***. I understand your anger, but we've got to think of the fish as well. That's all. Think of the sea animals as well. Yeah. How you going there, bro? What animals are you targeting today? What sea animals? Fish. Yeah. We're just letting all the fishermen know along this coast that from May 21st, we'll be enacting a new law on fish sentience. So I'm from the Animal Sentience Authorities. No, no, no. We're a subset of animal protection agencies. Okay. There's a new study on fish sentience, meaning they feel pain and suffer. They have a nervous system. So off the back of this study, we are going to enact a law starting from this coast, and then we're going to be bringing it into all coasts in Australian borders. Okay. We've released media. It'll be on channel 10 on the 19th of May, but the law will be enacted on 21st. So all the fish here will be protected based on their sentience and consciousness. Yeah. Sorry, bud. Animal sentience. Spear fishing where? How far down? Whereabouts? Up there, yeah. Okay. So we're just letting you know it will be $5,000 fine from May 21st onwards. What? Fishing here? $5,000 fines we'll start at from May 21st onwards. All right. Animal Sentience Authorities. Okay. ASA. No worries. So we're stopping everything? We're starting down this coast, and we're going to move along coasts from Queensland downwards. We're sort of, this is the test waters. And so it's sort of like when we bring out a study and we base the law off it, we have to bring it out, test it out with the public as well. We're starting off here, but then we'll be moving along. Anywhere else in the broboard? It will be about 2Ks that way, and another 7Ks up this way. Ouch. And there's about 12 of us out today all along the coast. So who's spear fishing? That's obviously already illegal here, but yeah, spear fishing is already prohibited. Okay. We're just saying May 21st onwards, animals in these waters will be protected. All sea animals. Because of a study that we're basing the law off of, fish sentience, they feel pain and they suffer like a dog does. Okay. So we wouldn't drown a dog or stick a hook in a dog's mouth and cause them suffering. So we're enacting this law, nine kilometres of this coast. Okay. There'll be no killing of sea animals along this coast, hooking them in the face causing them suffering. So from the 29 kilometres, and then we're bringing it, we're going to slowly, incrementally bring it in on all coasts of Australia. Okay. Be on Channel 10 News on, you can look out 19th of May. Okay. Fish fill pain, they suffer, they deserve the right to not be abused. Okay. $5,000 fine. It starts on May 21st. Okay. You can get a vegan burger, you can find vegan food. Pretty easy. Look pretty privileged here, you're not starving and having to hunt or anything like that. So you can make that choice, but when you don't make that choice, you're choosing to abuse animals. Yeah, I guess. And let's just say we could sustain torturing and killing animals en masse. Would that make it morally justifiable?