These flying fish are new on my bike ride to work. A string of fantastic fish-themed wind socks fly on a power pole in the middle of farmland south of Lincoln, NZ.

These little things really brighten up a place, plus it's always windy here.

I've learned that they're #koinobori, 'carp streamer' in Japanese. They even have an emoji: 🎏

Wikipedia says koinobori were "originally exclusive to samurai households". Perhaps a samurai dairy farmer has arrived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinobori

#fish #nz #japan

Fish caught on camera more than 8km deep in the sea

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/487197/fish-caught-on-camera-more-than-8km-deep-in-the-sea

#RNZ #BBC #Fish #DeepSea #AlanJamieson #Izu-OgasawaraTrench

“The smell is just next level.”

A climate change-induced heatwave causes the death of millions of fish near Menindee in NSW. A wall of fish is making its way downstream and it's so big there's not much anyone can do about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/18/the-smell-is-next-level-millions-of-dead-fish-spanning-kilometres-of-darling-baaka-river-begin-to-rot

#AU #Fish #NSW #Menindee

“Some fish can recognize their own faces in photos and mirrors, an ability usually attributed to humans and other animals considered particularly brainy, such as chimpanzees, scientists report. Finding the ability in fish suggests that self-awareness may be far more widespread among animals than scientists once thought.”

#fish #psychology

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fish-recognize-photo-self-aware

i cannot overstate how cool i think anglerfish are #deepsea #fish https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/01/discovered-in-the-deep-the-anglerfish-with-vampire-like-sex-lives

New research: Eating just one freshwater fish caught in a US river or lake is equivalent to drinking a month’s worth of water contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals...”

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/eating-one-wild-fish-is-the-same-as-drinking-tainted-water-for-a-month-study

#health #pollution #Fish #diet

Fishlight

This fish was about 60cm long

#photo #fish #light #fishlight

Two fish

#photo #fish #goldfish

Can’t believe we can get 秋刀魚 (sanma/saury) at the Pak-n-Save in Albany. An Autumn fish in Japan, Taiwan, etc that I absolutely love. This was so fresh and the oil in this fish is so healthy and tasty when you grill it over charcoal. #秋刀魚 #fish #sanma #KaiMoana

So Rachel Maddow was asked if she'd come to NZ and give a talk, and she said she has no plans but she'd love to, but if she did, she would first have to fish. Okay, who can get Clarke to invite her onto his Fishing show so she will actually visit??

#RachelMaddow #fish #tv

https://youtu.be/10F_NPjiwmg?t=182

Painted skin of a Red Snapper. The side away from camera has wires protruding to mount the fish on a wall or in a case.
Collected by A.F.S. Sandager, the lighthouse keeper, Mokohinau Islands, Hauraki Gulf, in 1887.
Artisan collectors were important through the early years of the Otago Museum.
Day 28: Wall #Museum30
📷 OMNZ VT2848
#Fish #Taxidermy #Collector #Artisan #NaturalHistory #Histodons

Partner spotted what he thinks is a giant kokopu in the Waimangaroa River. Very cool. #Fish #Conservation

Here, have a #WaterFeature, and a couple of #pools one of which has #Fish .