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unusual facts about The Fish



Closed Curtain

It is their fifth cinematic collaboration of any kind, following The Second Look (a documentary about Partovi's film Golnar), The Fish, The Circle and Border Café.


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2002 Klamath River fish kill

The fish kill played an important role in stirring an effort by local American Indian peoples, in concert with environmentalists and fishers, to remove dams on the Klamath River.

Alex Hirsch

Hirsch later moved on to be the writer, storyboard artist and creative consultant for Fish Hooks, which he also developed for television alongside Maxwell Atoms, where he portrays Clamantha, her father, Fumble, one of the fish police and a Ferret.

Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.

Australo-Papuan babbler

This is similar to the cooperative breeding system used by the fish species Neolamprologus pulcher with the difference being that N. pulcher are polygynous instead of monogamous.

BassOmatic

The name is explained in this comment from the source code: "BassOmatic gets its name from an old Dan Aykroyd Saturday Night Live skit involving a blender and a whole fish. The BassOmatic algorithm does to data what the original BassOmatic did to the fish."

Betta raja

When maintaining the aquariums for these species, instead of using substrate, breeders go for driftwood roots or branches, bark of Beech or oak and position them in a way that offers some kind of shades to the fish.

Black ghost knifefish

On the other hand, when low-frequency electric fields are generated by external sources instead of the fish itself, a different class of electroreceptor organs is used for this passive electrolocation, called ampullary organs.

Blundell Park

The Barrett's itself was eventually demolished in 1980 and was replaced with a two tier stand paid for by the fish processing firm Findus.

Boylston Street Fishweir

Radiocarbon dating, refined pollen sample analysis, and accurate surveys allowed the fish weir stakes to be understood to straddle many different stratigraphic layers.

Chira Island

From Puntarenas a daily boat goes to Isla Chira from the fish market.

Cornish folklore

All the fish was put into a big pie, and the pie called "Stargazy pie".

European smelt

In Hamburg the district name of Stintfang ("smelt catch") indicates this, and in Lüneburg a row of pubs and restaurants, the Stintmarkt, is named after the fish.

Fish counter

Such methods usually require significant habitat modification, such as construction of a weir to funnel the fish through the counter.

Fish-man

Gregorio Marañón, a reputed 20th century Spanish scholar and physician, argued that whereas the story about the fish-man itself was undoubtedly false, the amount of testimonies offered by Feijoo and others related to the fish-man of Liérganes could not be promptly discarded.

Fred Fish

The Fish Disks (term coined by Perry Kivolowitz at a Jersey Amiga User Group meeting) became the first national rallying point, a sort of early postal system.

Giant oarfish

The footage was caught during a survey, using an ROV in the vicinity of Thunder Horse PDQ, and shows the fish swimming in a columnar orientation, tail downward.

Gilbert Ichthyological Society

1 The society is named for celebrated ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert (1859‒1928), who either by himself or as coauthor (most often with his mentor and later colleague David Starr Jordan) was responsible for the discovery and naming of approximately 117 new genera and about 620 new species of fishes, including about 25% of the fish fauna of Washington and Oregon.

Hacquetia epipactis

::This article is about Hacquetia the plant (both the genus, and its singular species), for the fish genus, see the article Hacquetia.

Hagfish

Hagfish have also been observed actively hunting the red bandfish, Cepola haastii, in its burrow, possibly using their slime to suffocate the fish before grasping it with their dental plates and dragging it from the burrow.

Herbert Schilder

His level of popularity in the field led to the use of his name in the movie Finding Nemo, in which the "Schilder technique" was mentioned in the conversation between the fish.

Hkis

Ichthyological Society of Hong Kong, an organization for the professional analysis about ichthyological-based biodiversity and the fish-related knowledge education in Hong Kong

Is It Possible?

The first episode aired on March 24, 2010, and included a contortionist, a blind man who uses echolocation, microscopic art by Willard Wigan, the fish Macropinna microstoma, a lyrebird, a man who roller skated on a roller coaster, and several other subjects.

John Clark Salyer II

In 1966, the Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota as the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge to honor his legacy of contributions to the preservation of America's wildlife.

Jonni Future

His legacy to Jonni includes trappings like the fish-shaped spaceship Coelacanth, a war suit and a "universal translator" helmet that enable Jonni to communicate with Jermaal and other aliens.

Joseph McDonald

Country Joe McDonald (born 1942), lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish

June hogs

In the parlance of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, June hogs were the largest Chinook salmon caught in the summer migratory runs of the fish.

Kedah danio

Originating from Southeast Asia in southern Thailand, Kedah, and Sumatra, this fish is rarely found in the fish-keeping hobby, usually accidentally mixed with the pearl danio.

Labeo niloticus

It is generally believed to be the fish the swallowed the phallus of the Egyptian god Osiris in the myth regarding his death at the hands of his brother Seth.

Lake Wylie

South Carolina DNR officials say they are not worried about the catch, and have their plan to exterminate the fish if it becomes a problem.

Lips, or Almighty Cod

To restock their cod supplies at the fish farm, Tim, Bill and Graeme travel to Iceland, where they pretend to be visiting members of the MCC.

Nivik

Safe in the confluence, Ganga dispatched two salmon upriver; the fish swam until they found Vamana, and they entreated the dwarf god to come to Ganga’s aid.

Paraplesiops sinclairi

The fish is found in in rocky reef habitats in the coastal, inshore waters of south-western Western Australia, from the Recherche Archipelago to Lancelin.

Peruvian Pacific sardine

The most important location of the fish in Peru is Paita, Parachique, Santa Rosa, and Chimbote.

Pogge

Pogge is a name for the fish Agonus cataphractus.

Porticus Octaviae

This role is remembered in the name of the annexed church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria (Italian: "St. Angelus in the Fish Market").

Pygocentrus piraya

The fish Pygocentrus piraya often called the Piraya Piranha or San Francisco Piranha, and sometimes sold as the, Man Eating Piranha is a large, aggressive piranha from the São Francisco River basin in Brazil.

Roger Swainston

He then worked in the fish department of the Western Australian Museum and took part in a variety of scientific expeditions.

Sevan trout

The fish is endangered, because various competitors were introduced into the lake during the Soviet period, including common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) from Lake Ladoga, goldfish (Carassius auratus) and narrow-clawed crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus); and because of lake level change.

Spot croaker

The community of Hampstead, North Carolina hosts the North Carolina Spot Festival the last weekend of September to honor the fish.

Tees Barrage

Some angling groups argue that the progress of migratory fish is delayed below the barrier as fish have difficulty finding the very narrow entrance to the fish pass and that excessive numbers of foraging seals are taking advantage of this delay and are predating these fish and thus damaging the recovery of salmonids on the Tees.

The Diamond in the Fish

The Diamond in the Fish is a studio album by the American eclectic rock band Havalina Rail Co., released 1996.

The Question Is What Is the Question?

This same piece of music is used on the 1998 Scooter single "How Much Is The Fish?", taken from the album No Time To Chill.

Wallago attu

From that time, if the descendant came in touch with the fish their skin would become red and itching until they go to Lambo near Bota in middle District of Perak, Malaysia to find the medicine.

Western trumpeter whiting

The species was first recorded by Lt. Emery of the HMS Beagle during the Australian leg of its voyage, with the lieutenant making a detailed sketch of the fish.

Will Solomon

In Israel he was often nicknamed "The Fish" (Ha-dag, הדג), as in Hebrew his last name resembles "Salmon" much more than King Solomon, which is pronounced "Shlomo".

William Yarrell

Yarrell has a number of species named after him, including the birds Yellow-faced Siskin Carduelis yarrellii and Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii and the fish Yarrell's Blenny Chirolophis ascanii.

Zork Zero

The jester in Zork Zero will sometimes say So long, and thanks for all the fish, a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was the basis for another Infocom game.