Petition Ban the use of pike gags and lip grips in England.

Pike gags are a spring device that is used to hold a fishes mouth open to allow for unhooking. They are ban in Scotland as they are a barbaric tool.

Lip grips are a mechanical device that hold fish by the bottom jaw bone with a clamp

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Both pike gags and lip grips cause permenant damage to the jaw bone of pike and other boney mouth species

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

277 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 277 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 27 March 2017
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