can fish drown

Oh, 'can fish drown?' sounds like a quirky question, but actually, it's all about oxygen! Fish need oxygen to survive, just like us. They get it through water via their gills. However, if the oxygen level in the water is too low, or if their gills are damaged, fish can indeed 'drown'. There's more to it, but that's fishbreath 101 for ya.

"You know, I suddenly imagined a fish rising from the sea and trying to breathe... Isn't that too freaking surreal of a metaphor!?" "Yes, it is," I replied with some scorn. Fish after all do "breathe", but don't do so under external resemblance to human-like in the least. They take in oxygen I from water via their gills.

But--if the water they inhabit has so poor an oxygen content that little bumps cannot keep up with demand (as happens not infrequently in lakes and estuarine habitats where nutrients are plentiful) -- then just as surely regular as atheism from a good Christian shouting for firewood! Jamming up must be.

And if those gill-fleshes fails or get injured, then like any otherpoor swimmer not packed in enough rubber bands swimming fl frog it turns out they die of asphyxia. They suffocated!" Crazy, isn't it?

Yep, fish can 'drown' too! If water is low in oxygen or their gills are hurt, they can't breathe.

Here's something fun. Technically, fish can 'drown' - not like us, but in their own way. When there isn't enough oxygen in the water, or if a fish's gills are injured, it can suffocate. The fish equivalent of drowning.

Weird as it may sound, fish can 'drown'. Lack of oxygen or damaged gills can cause a fish to suffocate.