Fisc

Fisc is ƿæterƿuniende hrycgdēor þe is geþeaht mid sciellum and birþ tƿā tƿifealdnessa fina. Þæt mǣste dǣl fisca is oþþe "ūtanhātod" - hātod ūtan, lǣtende heora hāt ƿendan andefen begangendra hāta. Fiscas sind manigfealde on þǣm mǣstan dǣle ƿætera. Hīe magon in nēahlīce eallum gecyndelicum ƿæterigum ymbgeardum, fram hēam beorga strēamum (e.g., þæt leaxincel and sēo blǣge) oþ þā fordēopan dīpe þæs dēopestan geofones (rihtor, se drincend and se angelerfisc). Mid 31,500 cynna, fiscas habbaþ māran cynna fāgunge þonne ǣnig ōðer gecynd brycgbāndra dēora.^[1]

Ǣt genumen fram dēorum geset tō fiscum is ēacsƿā gehāten fisc oþþe fiscflǣsc, and is hefig mennisc ǣta andƿeorc. Cēapunge and andstandnesse fisceras "huntiaþ" fiscas in ƿildum fiscstōƿum (seoh fiscoþ) oþþe "rǣraþ" hīe in pōlum oþþe in dēorfealdum on þǣm geofone (seoh ƿæterbigenesse). Hī sind ēac befangen fram plegendum fiscerum and rǣrdon fram fischealderum, and sind īeƿed in folclicum ƿætersteallum. Fiscas habbaþ gehæfd ǣrend on līfƿegum geond þā ielda, ƿyrcende tō godum, gelēaflicum tācnum, and tō intingum listes, bōca, and scēaƿa.

1. ↑ FishBase: April 2009 Update. Retrieved 10 April 2010.