Are we wrong to assume fish can't feel pain?

We like to think fish have no feelings. And yet the idea that they have both memory and a capacity for suffering is gaining ground among scientists. By Carl Safina• More from this series: Animals FarmedI have cast my rod into the tidal current flowing around Montauk Point in New York and my lure is chugging across the surface when a bluefish swirls and fails to grab it. There is a heavier swirl. On a third appearance, the fish grabs. The hook pierces. The fish swims one way and abruptly cha