Be a Pro-Fish Activist Start planning your own pro-fish campaign to help stop the suffering of fish and other aquatic animals. 1) Organize a demonstration. Choose a location--check your local paper for fishing tournaments and events (particularly kids' events) or find a fishing location, such as a pier or a bait-and-tackle shop on a well-travelled road. Contact PETA for stickers, leaflets, and posters. Use our "Guide to Becoming an Activist." 2) Start a campaign to ban fishing at a local lake or pond. Find out who has the authority to institute such a ban, then write a respectful letter explaining your request. Send a copy of the letter to local press with a cover letter explaining that you thought they might be interested in doing a story. Follow up with a demonstration. 3) Ask the Boy Scouts to Retire Their Fishing Merit Badge By offering a "fishing" merit badge, the Boy Scouts of America teach boys that hooking, suffocating, and killing animals is acceptable. Fishing is inconsistent with the Scout Law, which states, "A Scout understands there is strength in being gentle. He treats others as he wants to be treated. He does not hurt or kill harmless things without reason." Fishing is cruel, and kids should be taught to enjoy the outdoors in nonviolent ways. Please ask Boy Scouts to encourage kids to enjoy the outdoors in nonviolent ways and retire their fishing merit badge. Call or write: Terry C. Lawson Director of Advancement Boy Scouts of America P.O. Box 152079 Irving, TX 75015-2079 Tel.: 972-580-2000 Fax: 972-580-2079 For more information on the Boy Scouts/Fishing campaign, click here. 4) Use PETA's "Fishing Hurts" stickers in highly visible places. Let us know how many you need, and we'll send them right away.