Fish Story

       

                                                   

                                    The Story of Fish 

                    

    Fish and seafood occupy a prominent position in the menu of masses from time immemorial because of its nutritional value and easy availability in fresh, unadulterated and varied form. Fishing is considered as a sport or pastime hobby for the haves and privileged to kill time in loneliness or in company of the beloved. For eternal dreamer fishing opens up endless rendezvouses to dream with baited breath for the elusive giants and monsters which sway in unfathomed underwater terrains.

Fishing as a livelihood brings agony and sorrow as fishing in stormy, unfavourable and unpredictable deep blue waters is not a benevolent business especially in the wrong seasons like monsoon. But nobody will deny the fun, excitement, and valour associated with fishing both as a livelihood and sport. The pride aggravate if the environment is unfavourable and the catch is precious.

      Eating fish is just as exciting as catching them as fish comes in multitudes of flavours and verity from tiny riverine anchovies to huge colossal white sharks of the deep sea. .There are millions of species and genera to choose from which differ in shape, size, and nutritional value. Who can resist the soft and tender fillets of blue or yellow fin tunas, the king fish, the snapper and seer fish chafed to perfection? The lesser fortunate class will argue that the taste is not endemic to the lousy, pomp, expensively elusive varieties in the 5 star menu but can equally  and undoubtedly be attributed to arguably the cheapest nutritional food known to man, the sardines .

The story of the fish often starts when an egg bearing mother lives in sea and brackish water or rivers in company of other pregnant parties and males moves upstream to more oxygen rich ,less threatening and docile terrains to spawn the egg so that the chances of the survival of the sibling have more odds in favour .Change of season like onset of monsoon will bring trillions of gallons of fresh and cool water rich in oxygen and manure from mountains and hills and other higher catchment areas of the rivers. This is the perfect stimulus for the journey of life, love and death.

Once hatched, the young ones grow very fast in favourable environment rich in oxygen and plenty of food. The grown-ups slowly move back downstream with tide to the place of origin, the clam, broad ,shallow rivers and ocean .By that time the young ones would have grown enough to face the challenges and great perils of the pools of waters. Once they reach this highly competitive waters, the smarter ones reach adulthood and others perish. The fittest ones rule the waters, till the next season of migration when they embark on a fresh journey of challenges of survival and parenthood. Too many a parent this annual ceremonious ritual or the journey of reproduction is also the journey of death and destruction. The classical example being that of salmon

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