{
  "id": 12634980,
  "title": "The cruelty of a beloved American pastime",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/the-cruelty-of-a-beloved-american-pastime",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-07T09:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vox",
    "slug": "vox",
    "url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/505350/catch-and-release-fishing-ethics-cruelty"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This story is part of a series supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from EarthShare. When I was a kid, my family would occasionally go fishing on small row boats on the lakes of Montgomery County, Maryland. The point wasn’t to catch fish to eat — we always released them — but […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}