Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish)
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Fishing - Food. Fried fish & French fries (fish & chips). Crayfish and prawns. Korean style raw fish. Cooked mussels. The flesh of many fish are primarily valued as a source of food; there are many edible species of fish as well as other sea food. Shellfish include shelled molluscs and crustaceans used as food. Shelled molluscs include the clam, mussel, oyster, winkle and scallop; some crustaceans are ...

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Bait fish Minnow or carp family (Cyprinidae), sucker family (Catostomidae), top minnows or killifish family (Cyprinodontidae), shad family (Clupeidae), sunfish family (Centrarchidae), excluding black basses and crappie. Bait fish are consumed by sharks. Swimming in ocean water occupied with bait fish is dangerous, as these fish attract sharks. Other related archivesCatostomidae, Centrarchidae, Clupeidae, Minnow, black basses, carp, crappie, killifish, shad, sharks, sunfish

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Fish and chips or fish'n'chips, a popular take-away food, consists of deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes. Fish and chips have great popularity in the United Kingdom , Australia, and New Zealand, considerable popularity in Canada, Ireland, South Africa, some coastal towns of the Netherlands and Norway, and increasing popularity in the United States and elsewhere. Fish and chips also have great popularity in Denmark, where the dish appears as "fish fillets" (Danish, fiskefiletter) - always accompanied by deep-fried potatoes. For decades fish and chips dominated the take-away food sec ...

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• Fish and chips - Folkways
• Fish and chips - Choice of fish
• Fish and chips - Accompaniments
• Fish and chips - Fish and chip shops
• Fish and chips - Other dishes
• Fish and chips - Footnote

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The Buffalo fish is the common name of any of several large members from the sucker fish family Catostomidae. They can be found in bodies of fresh water throughout the Mississippi valley. The most important species in this family, which are used for food, are the red-mouthed or brown (Ictiobus bubalus), the big-mouthed or black (Bubalichthys urus), and the small-mouthed (B. altus). Other related archivesCatostomidae, Mississippi, fresh water

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Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. The purpose usually relates to either feeding or breeding; in some cases the reason for migration is still unknown. Migratory fish are classified according to the following scheme: diadromous fish travel between salt and fresh water anadromous fish live in the sea mostly, breed in fresh water catadromous fish ...

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• Fish migration - Reference

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Fish anatomy is primarily governed by the physical characteristics of water, which is much denser than air, holds a relatively small amount of dissolved oxygen, and absorbs light more than does air. Fish anatomy - Body. Nearly all fish have a streamlined body, which is divided into head, trunk, and tail, although the dividing points are not always externally visible. The head includes the snout, from the eye to the forwardmost point of the upper jaw, the operculum or gill cover, and the cheek ...

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• Fish anatomy - Body
• Fish anatomy - Fins
• Fish anatomy - Scales

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Albert H. Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer and cannibal. He was also known as the Moon Maniac, the Gray Man, and the Brooklyn Vampire. Over the course of his criminal career, he murdered several children (some of whom he claimed to have eaten) and tortured others across the United States. Albert Fish - Early life and crimes. Born Hamilton Fish in Washington, D.C., to a family with an extensive history of mental illness, Fish grew up in ...

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• Albert Fish - Trial and execution

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The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike" fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the wearer to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language." This was both a useful plot device for Adams, who wrote on the subject that he always found the ability of all aliens to speak English very strange; and also the s ...

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Banana Fish is a classic shōjo manga by Akimi Yoshida which ran from 1985 to 1994 and spawned several mini-spin-offs: Private Opinion, Angel Eyes, and The Garden with Holy Light. (The characters of Eiji Okumura and Akira Ibe were introduced in the early short story Fly Boy, In the Sky.) The series was quite popular in Japan, cited for its hard-boiled nature as 'one of the few shōjo manga which a man could read unashamedly' by Frederik Schodt in his book Dreamland Japan. The name is most likely inspired by the short story ...

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Situated now in East London, Billingsgate Fish Market is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east of the City of London, where the riverside market was originally established. Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, became the centre of a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries, but did not become formally established until an Act of Parliament in 1699. In 1849, the fish market was moved off the streets into its own riverside building, which ...

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The African Fish Eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, is a large species of eagle and a bird of prey. African fish eagles are large birds, and the females are often larger than the males. Males usually have a wingspan of about 6 feet, while females have wingspans upwards of 8 feet. They are very distinctive in appearence with a mostly brown body and large, powerful, black wings. The head, breast, and tail of African fish eagles are snow white an ...

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Babel Fish is a web-based application developed by AltaVista (now part of Yahoo!) which machine translates text or web pages from one of several languages into another. It takes its name from the Babel fish, a fictional animal used for instantaneous language translation in Douglas Adams' novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The translation technology for Babel Fish is provided by SYSTRAN, whose technology also powers the translator at Google and a number of other sites. It can translate among English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, I ...

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• Babel Fish website - Original German
• Babel Fish website - Babel Fish Translation
• Babel Fish website - Version polished by a fluent German speaker

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A Fish Called Wanda is a movie released in 1988 by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton. The film is a comedy about a jewel theft, planned by George Thomason (played by Tom Georgeson), and its aftermath. George's right-hand man is Ken Pile (Michael Palin), an animal lover with a bad stutter. They bring in two Americans, sexy con artist Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and dim-witted hitman Otto West (Kevin Kline), who are lovers pretending to b ...

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The Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) is one of the most popular species of freshwater aquarium fish. It is a member of the gourami family (family Osphronemidae) of order Perciformes, but was formerly classified among the Anabantidae. It is native to the Mekong basin in Southeast Asia. As it is the only species of the genus Betta that is commonly kept in aquaria, the species is often referred to by the genus name ...

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• Siamese Fighting Fish - In the aquarium
• Siamese Fighting Fish - Characteristics

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Bass (IPA /bæs/) is a name shared by many different species of popular game fish. The striped bass belongs to the family of Percichthyidae and its other members include white bass and white perch. The striped bass and white bass are also known as temperate basses. Another group of basses include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and spotted bass. They belong to the sunfish family Centrarchidae whose other members include: bluegills, pumpkinseed and rock bass. These basses are also referred to as warm water basses or blac ...

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Fishing - Hand fishing. It is possible to fish with minimal equipment by using only the hands. In the USA catching catfish in this way is known as noodling. In the British Isles, the practice of catching trout by hand is known as trout tickling; it is an art mentioned several times in the plays of Shakespeare. Trout binning is a method of fishing, possibly fictional, performed with a sledgehammer[7]. Divers can catch lobsters by hand. Pearl diving is the practice of hunting for o ...

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Fishing - Origins. Fishing is a very ancient practice that dates back at least to the Mesolithic period which began about 10,000 years ago. We know from archaeological features such as shell middens[1], discarded fish bones and cave paintings that sea foods were important and consumed in significant quantities. During this time, most people lived a hunter-gather lifestyle and were, of necessity, constantly on the move. Howeve ...

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Fish can be found in almost all large bodies of water in salt or brackish or fresh water, at depths from just below the surface to several thousand meters. However, hyper-saline lakes like the Great Salt Lake do not support fishes. Some species of fish have been specially bred to be kept and displayed in an aquarium, and can survive in the home environment. Catching fish for the purpose of food or sport is known as fishing. The annual yield from all fisheries worldwide is about 100 million tonnes. Overfishing is a threat to many speci ...

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