Crown of Thorns Starfish – poisonous, invincible eating machines. ibid.
Humphead parrotfish – nearly a metre and a half in length; their jaws are so powerful they can bite through rock. ibid.
The sardines are forced to the surface; they come with a range of seabirds overhead. David Attenborough, The Life of Mammals VII: Return to the Water, BBC 2002
The salmon have arrived. This is the world’s largest freshwater fish migration. Across the northern hemisphere salmon returning from the ocean to their spawning grounds battle their way for hundreds of miles upstream. David Attenborough, Planet Earth e3: Freshwater, BBC 2006
Piranha can strip a fish to the bone in minutes. ibid.
The Great White – the largest predatory fish on the planet. David Attenborough, Planet Earth e9: Shallow Seas
The weirdest in this world of the strange: Vampyroteuthis – the vampire squid from hell. David Attenborough, Planet Earth e11: Ocean Deep
The biggest of all fish, thirty tons in weight, twelve metres long. A whale shark. Its huge bulk is sustained by mere microscopic creatures of the sea: plankton. ibid.
This is a lungfish. It pumps itself along the river bottom using two pairs of fleshy muscular fins placed low on its body. David Attenborough, Life in Cold Blood II: Land Invaders, BBC 2008
Bottlenose dolphins: and they are on a mission – a mission to catch fish ... The dolphins have a plan. They have learnt to corral the fish by working as a team ... This behaviour is unique to the dolphins of Florida Bay. David Attenborough, Life s1e7: Hunters and Hunted, BBC 2009
A brown bear. Here they grow larger than anywhere in the world. Other bears have also gathered at the edge of the surf. They’ve come here to fatten up for the winter. They’re waiting for an event that happens just once a year: the salmon run. ibid.
Humboldt squid: two meters long they have a local reputation as man-eaters ... This is a pack of hundreds. David Attenborough, Life s1e8: Creatures of the Deep
A swarm of one hundred thousand stinging jellyfish might seem a daunting prospect for a predator. But not for this one. A huge Fried Egg Jellyfish. It is a killer. Its weapons are harpoon-like cells that cover its tentacles. ibid.
This cuttlefish is one of the cleverest animals in the ocean. She has a very large brain. In fact it’s larger for her size than that of most fish or reptiles ... Cuttlefish can make very dramatic changes to their skin pattern in order to signal their moods. ibid.
The coastal waters of British Columbia: home to this four-metre long Pacific Giant Octopus. She is a formidable predator. ibid.
Out of the depths comes one of the largest and most aggressive star-fish in the ocean – Pycnopodia, a giant sea-star the size of a dustbin lid. It’s a hunter. ibid.
Here on the western coast of North America in the spring of each year one of the Earth’s greatest travellers comes home – over half a billion salmon in the Pacific Ocean start on a three thousand mile journey returning to spawn in the rivers they were born. David Attenborough, Nature’s Great Events II: The Great Salmon Run, BBC 2009
Killer whales – they eat a lot of salmon. And so do Steller sea lions. Salmon sharks are here too. ibid.
These cool waters create the perfect conditions for a spectacle of epic proportions: and everything revolves around the humble sardine. Each year millions of them are swept up Africa's coast on a desperate winter journey: following them comes what will become the biggest army of predators anywhere on the planet. David Attenborough, Nature’s Great Events IV: The Great Tide
The greatest shoal on Earth. ibid.
Working as a team the dolphins isolate a group of fish and corral them into a tight ball close to the surface. The gannets can now make their move. ibid.
Astonishing and sustained drama. ibid.
The sardine run: one of Nature’s great events. ibid.
Many species have reached the point of collapse ... If present trends continue, commercial fishing as we know it will have collapsed by the year 2050. David Attenborough, Horizon: The Death of Our Oceans? BBC 2010
The largest fish in the world – the whale shark. David Attenborough’s Galapagos: Adaptation, BBC 2013
The freshwater eel is surrounded by legends … The eels were constantly producing electric discharges … I could get a jolt of an astonishing 600 volts which is quite enough to kill me. Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities s2e6: Shocking Senses, BBC 2013
The electric catfish could also give shocks and they called it the Thunderer of the Nile. ibid.
Male seahorses play mother and physically give birth … A fish that kept its eggs in a pouch seemed scarcely believable. Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities s2e9: Strange Parents
He may have up to 1,500 eggs in his pouch. ibid.
They are flying fish ... With a good wind they can glide for hundreds of metres. David Attenborough, The Hunt IV: Hunger at Sea (Oceans), BBC 2015
Lantern fish – they are the most numerous fish on the planet. ibid.
Much of our planet still remains unexplored. For most of it is covered by water. Every journey below the surface can reveal something extraordinary. More than a thousand new species are discovered here every year. The ocean is home to 80% of all animal life on Planet Earth. David Attenborough, Planet Earth s3e2: Ocean
A predatory lionfish on the hunt from shrimp and small fish. With so many places for its prey to hide, the lionfish has to be patient. ibid.
One of the shallow seas’ most extraordinary predators, the clown frog fish. ibid.
These fish are no easy meal: they are flying fish. ibid.
Tens of thousands of [Mobula] rays in a single shoal. ibid.
A glass squid. Completely transparent. Apart from its eyes and stomach. ibid.
Pearl octopus: This is the largest known gathering of octopus in the world … all here to lay their eggs. ibid.
The influence of these vents extends far beyond these chimneys. ibid.
Every river carries its own unique scent down to the ocean. Salmon gather to catch the scent and follow the trail upstream to their birthplace. Life on Fire: The Surprise Salmon: Jeremy Irons narrator
Only dead fish go with the flow. Sarah Palin
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steve Wright
Well, I wish I was a catfish
Swimming in a oh, deep, blue sea
I would have all you good looking women
Fishing, fishing after me. Muddy Waters et al, Catfish Blues
You see down there – fish! Fish! What kind of fish I hear you Nature lovers ask could survive in a pond where the microbes are bigger than they are? Answer: Govan fish. Wee hard men-fish. Problem fish. Single parent fish. See, these fish have probably got a social worker swimming behind them. Rab C Nesbitt: Wild, BBC 1997
Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There’s a fish that talks
In the frying pan. Walter de la Mare, 1873-1956, English poet & novelist
There are in fact only three types of fish: cod, whales and scampi. Spitting Image s1e7, sketch David Attenborough ‘Life on Earth’, ITV 1984
It’s not working. We’ve got to be more gross. Spitting Image s2e11, fish to fish in restaurant tank
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. ibid.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. ibid.
A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. ibid.
No man can lose what he never had. ibid.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. ibid.
During the age of Pisces the fish was the symbol of divinity, and the Son of God fed the multitude with two small fishes. Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages