Nearly Naked 'Mermaids' to Stick Up for Fish During Fish Empathy Week

PETA Beauties Will Ask Fargo Residents and Tourists to Leave 'the Other Meat'—Fish—off Their Plates and Go Vegan

For Immediate Release:
September 26, 2012

Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382 

Fargo, N.D. -- Wearing little more than "fins," two sexy PETA members will dress as topless mermaids on Thursday to encourage Fargo residents and tourists to make one more type of flesh off limits: fish. PETA's mermaids will appear in downtown Fargo holding signs that read, "Sea Life, Not Seafood."

When:   Thursday, September 27, 12 noon

Where:  Southwest corner of N. Broadway Drive and Second Avenue N., Fargo

"Fish might not be cute and cuddly, but when it comes to feeling pain and having a will to live, they're just like all other animals," says PETA campaigner Leila Sleiman.

Scientific studies show that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals who experience pain and fear when they are hooked or netted and pulled from the water. A recent issue of the journal Fish and Fisheries cited more than 500 research papers on fish intelligence that prove that fish are smart, can use tools, and have impressive long-term memories and sophisticated social structures.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or FishingHurts.com.