Animal rights activists want a small seaside town to change its annual mackerel festival to celebrate the humble cabbage instead. At the end of the fishing season in Aberaeron, the Ceredigion town hosts a mackerel fiesta, described as "a light-hearted funeral" dedicated to the fast-swimming fish. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) wants the popular event to be an "animal-friendly" and "kinder" cabbage fiesta instead. The animal welfare group sent a letter to Lloyd Thomas, president of Aberaeron Yacht Club, with the suggestion to "swap fish-focused festivities for an animal-friendly celebration of Welsh produce" by hosting an Aberaeron Cabbage Fiesta. In the letter, the group urged Thomas to "let fish off the hook and transform the Aberaeron Mackerel Fiesta into a kinder event".