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Fish and chips
Fish and chips: battered deep-fried white fish with thick-cut fried potatoes, Britain's classic chippy takeaway. Combined in the 1860s in London or Lancashire from Jewish fried-fish and northern chip traditions; unrationed in both world wars.
Fish and Elephant (今年夏天)
Fish and Elephant (今年夏天) is Li Yu's 2001 underground 16mm debut, mainland China's first lesbian-themed fiction film, following elephant keeper Qun and stall owner Ling in Beijing; it won Venice's Elvira Notari Prize and was banned at home.
Fish as food
Fish as food: fish and other aquatic animals eaten by humans, from capture fisheries and aquaculture. 89-90 percent of production is consumed as food; per capita intake rose from 9.0 kg (1961) to 20.5 kg (2019); farmed output surpassed wild catch in 2022.
Fish ball
Fish ball (魚蛋): a minced-fish or surimi ball with starch, salt, and seasonings, a southern Chinese and Southeast Asian staple; Hong Kong curry fish balls, Teochew white balls, Fuzhou pork-filled balls, 50% fish-content rules, and high sodium.
Fish factory ship
A fish factory ship, also called a factory trawler or catcher processor, is a fishing vessel with an onboard factory that guts, fillets, packages, and freezes the catch at sea.
Fish farming
Fish farming, also known as fish culture or farmed fisheries, is the rearing of fish in ponds, cages, and tanks for food, the finfish branch of aquaculture.
Fish fin
Fish fin: median fins (dorsal, anal, caudal) and paired fins (pectoral, pelvic) used for thrust, steering, and stability; BCF versus MPF swimming; regenerating teleost caudal fin; origin of paired fins and fin-to-limb transition.
Fish gill
Fish gill: the respiratory organ of water-breathing fishes, also called branchia. Countercurrent lamellar exchange gives 50–90% oxygen extraction, above mammalian lungs, and the gill also handles ion regulation, acid–base balance, and ammonia excretion.
Fish hatchery
Fish hatchery: facility for artificial fish propagation, also called fish seed production station. Raises eggs, fry, and fingerlings for stocking, conservation, or farm supply; ranges from pond complexes to recirculating aquaculture systems.
Fish Hooks
Fish Hooks is a Disney Channel animated series created by Noah Z. Jones, running 2010–2014 in three seasons, about fish tweens Bea, Milo, and Oscar at Freshwater High School in Bud's Pet Shop, voiced by Chelsea Kane, Kyle Massey, and Justin Roiland.
Fish kill
Fish kill: mass death of fish or aquatic animals over a short period, also called fish die-off. Most often caused by low dissolved oxygen, algal blooms, toxins, pollution, disease, or gas bubble disease.
Fish ladder
A fish ladder, also called a fishway, is a structure of ascending pools that allows migrating fish such as salmon to pass over or around river obstacles like dams.
Fish locomotion
Fish locomotion: how fishes swim via body-caudal fin (BCF) or median-paired fin (MPF) propulsion, axial muscle power, vortex wakes, and body-shape effects on performance.
Fish maw
Fish maw (dried swim bladder, 花膠-style delicacy) is one of the four seafood treasures of Chinese cuisine; a luxury trade worth hundreds of millions, driving totoaba poaching and vaquita bycatch, authenticated by DNA barcoding.
Fish meal
Fish meal is a protein-rich powder made by cooking, pressing, and drying fish or fish waste, mostly anchoveta, and used chiefly in feed for poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.
Fish migration
Fish migration: regular seasonal movements of fish between feeding and spawning habitats, including anadromy and catadromy; studied by acoustic and radio telemetry, threatened by dams, with migratory freshwater fish down 81% since 1970.
Fish Mooney
Fish Mooney, real name Maria Mercedes Mooney, is a fictional Gotham crime boss and nightclub owner in the Fox series Gotham, played by Jada Pinkett Smith. Created by Bruno Heller for the show and not from the comics, she was Penguin's employer and returned with a draining mind-control touch power.
Fish oil
Fish oil, pressed from small pelagic fish like Peruvian anchoveta or from fish by-products, is rich in omega-3 EPA and DHA; about 73% goes to aquaculture feed, 16% to human supplements, with mixed cardiovascular trial evidence.
Fish ponds
Fish ponds: natural or artificial basins for breeding and rearing fish, the earliest form of aquaculture (Yin Dynasty China, Fan Li's Classic of Fish Culture, c. 475 B.C.) and the dominant finfish production system, ranging from extensive to intensive.
Fish Products
Fish Products: food and feed products manufactured from fish, including fish flour, fish meal, and fish oil. About 89% of production feeds humans; most fishmeal and fish oil go to aquaculture feed.
Fish reproduction
Fish reproduction covers spawning, sex change, and parental care in fishes; teleosts are the only vertebrates with sequential hermaphroditism (72% protogynous), and temperature strongly affects reproduction.
Fish sauce
Fish sauce (nước mắm, nam pla, patis) is a translucent condiment of fermented fish and salt, central to Southeast Asian cooking. Codex requires ≥6 months fermentation, ≥10 g/l nitrogen, ≥200 g/l salt; garum is its Roman ancestor.
Fish scale
Fish scale: dermal, mineralized collagen-hydroxyapatite plates (cycloid, ctenoid, ganoid, cosmoid) overlapping on fish skin for protection; also used for fish aging and as biomimetic models for armor, sensors, and antifouling surfaces.
Fish slaughter
Fish slaughter: killing of farmed and wild-caught fish for food, via percussive, electrical, spiking (ikejime), CO2, or ice-slurry methods; most farmed fish are not stunned, and method choice drives both welfare and meat quality.
Fish Speech
Fish Speech is a family of open-weight text-to-speech and voice-cloning models by Fish Audio, first released in October 2023 and supporting zero-shot cloning from short samples.
Fish stock
A fish stock is a group of fish of one species in a geographic area that interbreed, treated as a unit for assessment and catch limits.
Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー)
Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー) is a 2009 Japanese comedy-drama directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Kotaro Isaka's short story, in which a forgotten 1975 punk single by the band Gekirin connects strangers across decades and helps save Earth from a comet in 2012.
Fish Tank (film)
Fish Tank is Andrea Arnold's 2009 British social-realist drama about 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis), her mother's boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), and dance as escape; it won the Cannes Jury Prize (tied with Thirst) and the BAFTA for Best British Film.
Fish-scale registers
Fish-scale registers (鱼鳞图册) were Chinese land registers recording each plot's owner and dimensions, named for their scale-like layout; with the Yellow Registers they formed the early Ming fiscal backbone.
Fish56Octagon
Fish56Octagon is the pseudonym of an anonymous British DJ and producer, formerly a car-content creator in a dressing gown, who rose from TikTok vinyl videos in 2024 to Glastonbury, Creamfields and Ibiza sets and the label Octagon Discs.