Fish really do feel pain, according to a study conducted by a team of scientists from the Roslin Institute and Edinburgh University, published on Wednesday by the Royal Society.

The findings by the institute - famous for producing Dolly the sheep, the first cloned adult mammal - instantly renewed controversy about the morality of angling in a long-running debate in Britain.

Lynne Sneddon, formerly at the Roslin Institute and now in Liverpool, found in a study undertaken with Victoria Braithwaite and Michael Gentle that rainbow trout have nociceptors - nerve receptors that respond preferentially to tissue damaging stimuli.

"We found 58 receptors located on the face and head of the rainbow trout," Sneddon said.

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