>>55845377This is complicated to explain, but we must understand Pokemon lore as two stages of the franchise, the old stage from the release of the first games to the release of GS. And the "modern" stage after the release of RSE.
In the first stage, Pokémon were treated more like animals or monstrous entities that coexisted with normal fauna and flora, so their consumption and predation by humans was normalized.
During the middle of this stage the anime was born, it still continued with this lore as can be seen in the first episodes, later due to causes the anime became popular and began to be exported, this was a turning point, since now the anime had to adapt to international censorship, so a series of rules were created for the distribution and production of products and subproducts for the franchise (You can find it on the Internet) at first this only affected the anime, keeping the lore of the games intact, but in accordance as time passed, the majority public only had anime as
reference, so over time the games were adapted to anime standards, there are still small clues about the consumption of pokemon meat, but curiously it is only those who can regenerate or are they just harmless derivatives (slowpoke tails, crab claws, eggs, milk, honey, fruits, seeds, even the sausages of this world are just a mixture of pokebeans and pokeberries) also as the franchise grew it depended less and less on references from our world such as Indian elephants or America, we already have Copperajah and Unova, it is no longer necessary to use real counterparts.
Answering the question, the Misty of that season probably fished for her dinner, but in current times she would only do it to catch a new Pokemon or hunt for sea treasures as is the case with Lana's "fishers" family. (Ironically in Lana's video game character page she appears carrying a load of Wishiwashis like any normal fisherman)
