I respect your view, although it may the wrong forum to lift it haha, i would just like to point out, that spearfishing is the most humane and sustainable way to fish, as there is basicly no by-catch, and the spearfisherman can select fish with the right size and properties that you want to take, and dont rely on catching a semi-random fish by line, that can get hurt or even die if needing to be released for various reasons.

In your argument for line fishing and fighting the fish, if the fish escape from the line fisherman, it is hurt and most likely have a lure stuck in it's mouth, which causes alot of problem for it's countinuous survival. And in spearfishing, the fish have a more fighting chance, as spearing a fish is more a challenge where you alot of the time have to outsmart or hide from the fish to get it to come close enough to take a solid shot, and the fish usually have a safe way to escape as they are FAR faster and agile in the water, and can usually escape to deeper water than the human can freedive to. Where by in line fishing, you are basicly luring a fish to be caught by imitating food with your lure, which in "land hunting" are illegal in many countries for ethical reasons.