Used of a person in colloquial speech since the eighteenth century, especially in phrases like ‘an odd fish’, ‘a queer fish’. The word was sometimes specifically applied to a sailor. In modern American slang ‘fish’...

Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being known from mountain streams (e.g., char...

Hundreds of brightly colored carp poke their mouths out of the lake at Long's Park in Lancaster gasping for air. Along the water's edge, a smattering of fish move sluggishly among the hundreds of Koi, goldfish and even some catfish that have already died....

BOB GROVES, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-19-1991 FISHING -- THE LURE OF NORTH JERSEY By BOB GROVES, Record Staff Writer Date: 05-19-1991, Sunday Section: SPECIAL SECTIONS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday At first glance, the number of old...

Joshua Sutherland beamed in amazement at the six-inch bluegill he had managed to reel in from a small lagoon on one of the first casts of his young life."That was exciting," the 10-year-old said with a wide grin at a clinic for fishing neophytes. "It...

Sports fishermen better known for battling marlin with rod and reel now are defending their beloved game fish by launching a high-profile campaign to convince diners not to order marlin at restaurants, under the slogan: "No Marlin on the Menu!"With stocks of the spike-nosed marlin...