Is there fish in every body of water?

Fish are found nearly everywhere there is water with enough food, oxygen and cover. Near your home there should be a body of water that has fish living in it. But to catch a fish, first you must learn to understand where they are hiding. Not all fish can live in the same kind of waters.
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What body of water has no fish?

There's no seaweed, fish or any other creatures found in or around its turquoise waters. Find out more with these interesting facts about the Dead Sea. 1. The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth, with almost 10 times more salt than ordinary seawater.
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Do lakes naturally have fish?

Some of the most common fish found in lakes are tiny shiners, sunfish, perch, bass, crappie, muskie, walleye, perch, lake trout, pike, eels, catfish, salmon, and sturgeon. Many of these provide food for people. Lakes are an important part of the water cycle; they are where all the water in an area collects.
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How did fish get into all the lakes?

Some lake residents are even descended from ancestors that crossed from one lake to another. While most fish can't travel very far over the land, their eggs will survive for several hours out of water. When waterbirds come to lakes to feed, fish eggs might get stuck to their feathers, hitching a ride to a new home.
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Do all ponds have fish?

Natural ponds often serve a wide range of animal species. However, not all ponds you see have fish in them as normally expected. There are a few subtle and no so subtle ways to find out if fish are in the water. Paddle boat to the center of the pond and begin to spread (throw) fish food on the top of the water.
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Is it safe to swim in ponds?

There are many contaminants that make it unsafe to swim in ponds. Although it's unpleasant to think about, animal and human waste are often contributors. Human sewage and animal waste and manure contain fecal coliform bacteria and e-coli bacteria types that make water unsafe for swimming.
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Do fish exist?

Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.
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Can fish just appear in ponds?

This may sound a bit unbelievable at first, but it is true. Fish and other aquatic creatures may already be living in a fresh pond (or one that refills after being dry for a while), but you may not see them until some time after their formation.
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Do fish get thirsty?

The answer is still no; as they live in water they probably don't take it in as a conscious response to seek out and drink water. Thirst is usually defined as a need or desire to drink water. It is unlikely that fish are responding to such a driving force.
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Can it rain fish?

The city said raining fish is a phenomenon called "animal rain" that happens when small water animals such as frogs, crabs or small fish are swept into waterspouts.
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How do rivers get fish?

Over longer time periods, movement of fish between basins is often facilitated by "headwater capture." This is when a river tributary cutting its way upstream toward the divide between basins causes enough erosion to cut through that divide, thus serving as a waterway between two rivers.
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Are lakes clean?

Marine and freshwater beaches, lakes, rivers, and ponds can be contaminated with a number of things. Bacteria, chemicals, and other pollutants from sewage bypasses, combined sewer overflows, human and animal feces, urban runoff – can all pollute and contaminate waterways.
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Is there fish in the Dead Sea?

This is the Dead Sea. As you can see, it appears quite dead. There are no plants, fish, or any other visible life in the sea. Its salt concentration is a staggering 33.7%, 8.6 times saltier than ocean water, which is only about 3.5% salt.
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Are there fish in the open ocean?

True residents live their entire life in the open ocean. Only a few species are true residents, such as tuna, billfish, flying fish, sauries, pilotfish, remoras, dolphinfish, ocean sharks, and ocean sunfish.
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Is anything alive in the Dead Sea?

The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms, such as fish and aquatic plants, from living in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.
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Do fishes fart?

Most fish do use air to inflate and deflate their bladder to maintain buoyancy which is expelled either through their mouth or gills which can be mistaken for a fart. For example, sand tiger sharks gulp air into their stomachs at the surface which they then discharge out the back door to attain a desired depth.
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Do fishes pee?

Fish have kidneys which produce urine containing ammonium, phosphorus, urea, and nitrous waste. The expelled urine encourages plant growth on coral reefs; downstream benefits also include increased fertilization of algae and seagrass, which in turn provides food for the fish.
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Can a fish drown?

Most fish breathe when water moves across their gills. But if the gills are damaged or water cannot move across them, the fish can suffocate. They don't technically drown, because they don't inhale the water, but they do die from a lack of oxygen.
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Do fishes sleep?

While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.
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Do fishes drink water?

As well as getting water through osmosis, saltwater fish need to purposefully drink water in order to get enough into their systems. Where their freshwater counterparts direct all of the water that comes into their mouths out through their gills, saltwater fish direct some into their digestive tract.
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Are there fishes in rivers?

Rivers are home to abundant fish and wildlife, including: Freshwater fish like bass, perch, bluegill, and catfish. Migratory fish such as alewife, salmon, trout, and striped bass. Invertebrates that provide food for fish.
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Are humans fish?

The way this happens only really makes sense when you realise that, strange though it may sound, we are actually descended from fish. The early human embryo looks very similar to the embryo of any other mammal, bird or amphibian - all of which have evolved from fish.
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Is a fish an animal yes or no?

Fishes are a group of animals that are completely aquatic vertebrates that have gills, scales, swim bladders to float, most produce eggs, and are ectothermic. Sharks, stingrays, skates, eels, puffers, seahorses, clownfish are all examples of fishes.
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What did the first fish think?

ans2) He believed that whatever was to happen would happen and nobody could change it.
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