{"id":553740,"date":"2026-04-27T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:52:09","slug":"rspca-calls-for-crabbing-to-be-stopped-as-creatures-feel-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553740\/","title":{"rendered":"RSPCA calls for crabbing to be stopped as creatures &#8216;feel pain&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenny Longden, from the RSPCA, said public opinion and lack of awareness towards the feelings of the animals was &#8220;astounding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;We understand people like to go out and enjoy these past times. We don&#8217;t want to be party-poopers, but does that necessarily have to happen? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Do we need to take these animals out of their environment, put them in a bucket, possibly prod them, poke them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re going through. We can enjoy these animals in other ways.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mevagissey Harbour Master Andrew Trevarton said crabbing was an &#8220;integral part&#8221; of the village&#8217;s heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a very special part of people&#8217;s holiday that, when they return as they grow up, they bring their children, and it&#8217;s been going on decades and decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenny Longden, from the RSPCA, said public opinion and lack of awareness towards the feelings of the animals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-553740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}