Saltwater

A fish the size of a man that breathes air, leaps higher than the boat and shakes its head in the air to throw the hook.…

The longest-lived vertebrate on Earth: the largest shark studied was about four hundred years old. It swims slower than a person walks, comes of age at…

A fish the size of a hand on which the Hanse and the Dutch fleet were built. Towns were raised, wars fought and fasts kept for…

The fish without which Senegal does not cook its national dish. The thiof is born female and only with the years becomes male, and it grows…

The Massachusetts colonists forbade manuring fields with it, and Plymouth paid for a school out of its catch. Three hundred years later it was fished nearly…

A fish that eats mud and grinds it in a stomach like a bird's gizzard. It was raised in Hawaiian ponds, its roe is dried from…

A fish that goes to sea and comes back to spawn in the very river where it was born. In the river it does not eat…

A fish built like a shell: up to three metres, nearly seven hundred kilograms, and warm blood in cold water. By the turn of the century…

The fish that fed the North Atlantic for a thousand years, and which in 1883 was declared inexhaustible.