If the slow death involves no pain, of course it’s credible. (The electric shock is, incidentally, generally insufficient to kill. They generally solve the problem of the fish reviving with immersion in ice slurry....). It’s also credible that neither are remotely as painful as a two week malaria infection or a few years of malaria infection which is (much of) what sits on the other side of the trade here.
This is less clear for shrimp, though. I don’t know if they find the cold painful at all, and it might sedate them or even render them unconscious. But I imagine that takes time, and they’re being crushed by each other and ice with ice slurry.
If the slow death involves no pain, of course it’s credible. (The electric shock is, incidentally, generally insufficient to kill. They generally solve the problem of the fish reviving with immersion in ice slurry....). It’s also credible that neither are remotely as painful as a two week malaria infection or a few years of malaria infection which is (much of) what sits on the other side of the trade here.
My understanding from conversation with SWP is that for shrimp, the electric stunning also just kills the shrimp, and it’s all over very quickly.
It might be different for fish.
Conditional on fish actually being able to feel pain, it seems a bit far-fetched to me that a slow death in ice wouldn’t be painful.
This is less clear for shrimp, though. I don’t know if they find the cold painful at all, and it might sedate them or even render them unconscious. But I imagine that takes time, and they’re being crushed by each other and ice with ice slurry.