Fish

..after we encamped a little Indian boy caugh several chubbs with a bone in this form which he substituted for a hook.  these fish were of about 9 inches long small head large abdomen, small where the tail joined the body, the tail wide long in proportion and forked.  the back and ventral fins were equadistant […]

……………we saw a number of trout today since the river has become more shallow; also caught a fish of a white colour on the belly and sides and of a bluish cast on the back which had been accedentally wounded by a setting pole.    it had a long pointed mouth which opened somewhat like

I marvel how the fishes live in the sea – Why as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare.  Pericles, Prince of Tyre Really – what would you do if you pull this thing into the boat?  They are in the sculpin superfamily, Cottoidae, a wide-ranging marine and freshwater fish

In a store I saw a one-cup teapotshaped like a fish I once metunder the waves at Puako Beach.Short as a thumb, he had a name longerthan the curving shore.  –from the poem, A Pot of Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, Rachel Dacus I don’t pretend to know how to pronounce that – but the crib notes suggest “who-moo-who-moo-noo-koo-ah-pooah-ah”.   It’s

Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads,Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!In the morning laughing happy fish headsIn the evening floating in the soup,Ask a fish head anything you want toThey won’t answer, they can’t talk – Fish head song, Barnes and Barnes his is a small rockfish with a wide range, inhabiting the