Q

Q = Quaternary geological period.

q = abbreviation for the fraction of a fish stock which is caught by a defined unit of the fishing effort. When the unit is small enough that it catches only a small part of the stock (0.01 or less) it can be used as an instantaneous rate in computing population change. Also called catchability coefficient, q.v.

q = q.

q. e. = abbreviation for quod est, meaning which is.

q. v. = abbreviation for quod vide, meaning which see.

qanat = an underground water channel constructed in alluvial fan material to tap the water table and provide a constant flow of water. Mostly found in the Middle East and a habitat there for fishes. Called karez in central Asia and Afghanistan, falaj in Arabia and foggara in North Africa.

ql = quintal (3).

quadradiate = with four radiating arms or extensions.

quadrate = a paired, triangular, deep, endochondral bone on which the mandible hinges, connecting the lower jaw to the palatine and hyoid arches. During evolution becomes the incus bone of the inner ear of mammals.

quadratojugal = a paired dermal bone behind the quadrate, e.g. in Lepisosteus and Acipenseridae. It may be an independent ossification, e.g. in Salmo and Syngnathus. Sometimes called interopercle or preopercle from its position.

quadrotojugal process = a process on the quadrate formed by the fusion of the quadratojugal to the quadrate after its initial independent ossification, e.g. in Salmo and Syngnathus.

quadri- (prefix) = four, square, at right angles, fourfold.

quadricuspid = with four points, e.g. a quadricuspid tooth.

quantity = a collective noun (a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit) for smelt.

quap = to rise to a fly; said of trout (Gloucester dialect).

quarantine = in aquaculture, a confined or enclosed system that is designed to prevent any possibility of the release of the species, or any of its disease agents or any other associated organisms into the environment.

quarantine pond = a pond used to isolate diseased or parasitised fish.

quarantine tank = an aquarium set aside from the main aquaria and used to isolate sick fish for treatment or new fish that need to be checked for parasites and diseases. Also called hospital tank.

quark = kwerk (part of the throat of a fish used as bait (Scottish dialect)).

quarkay = kwerk (part of the throat of a fish used as bait (Scottish dialect)).

quarkie = kwerk (part of the throat of a fish used as bait (Scottish dialect)).

quarry = 1) an open pit for mining, often becoming filled with water when no longer mined and stocked with fish.

quarry = 2) an animal hunted or caught for food. Anglers often refer to fish as their "quarry".

quarter cut fillet = fillet from a flatfish where the flesh is taken off in two pieces.

quarter fishing = salmon fishing during the first and last quarters of the moon when fish are supposed to be more plentiful (Scottish dialect).

quarter nape fillet = a fillet of fish with the belly flap removed, essentially boneless.

quarter rope = handling rope used in side trawling to bring the bosom section of the groundrope to the ship's side.

quarter strop = a wire rope fitted with two swivels used in conjunction with the quarter ropes for heaving the mouth of the trawl inboard and securing it.

quasi-anadromous = fish that live in the sea but spawn in estuarine conditions, e.g. tomcod, pink salmon.

quasi-catadromous = fish that live as young in estuaries but spawn in high salinity sea water, e.g. menhaden, mullet.

Quaternary = a geological period of the Cenozoic Era ca. 1.6-0 million years ago comprising the Pleistocene and Holocene (or Recent). Abbreviated as Q.

quay = a solid artificial structure for loading and unloading ships along the water's edge or projecting into the water.

queed = a wooden tub for holding fish (Scottish dialect).

queen of the fishes = a mythical fish or supernatural being in Finland, France and the Balkans. This huge fish guards the fish in inland waters. Depicted as covered in mosses and with fully mature pine tree growing from the back.

queer fish = an eccentric; a term of contempt applied to people (slang).

quennelles = paste prepared from starchy substance, eggs, fat and freshwater fish. Presented in a rolled form and often canned (France).

querd = queed.

querimana stage = the silvery pelagic juvenile stage of Mugilidae.

quick-strike rig = a secondary hook on a short piece of line tied to the main line and its hook. The bait then has two hooks, one at each end. This reduces missed strikes where fish take the end without a hook and more fish are hooked in the mouth rather than swallowing the bait before the hook can be set.

quickwater = a stream or part thereof having a marked current.

quide = queed.

quiddie = queed.

quilter = a very large fish (English dialect).

quin- (prefix) = five, fivefold.

quinaldine = an anaesthetic used for bulk transport of fish in tanks.

quincunx = a set of 5 objects arranged with 4 as the corners of a square and the fifth centrally placed, e.g. lateral line pores in Nemichthys scolopaceus; spots on the flank of Barbus subquincunciatus are arranged almost like a five in dominoes, but irregularly.

quincuspid = with 5 points or cusps, e.g. a quincuspid tooth.

quintal = 1) an old measure of dried, salt cod for sale, 112 pounds or 50.8 kg. Two quintals was known as a draft or draught in Newfoundland. Also used to quantify large catches so a voyage of 500 quintals represented approximately a quarter million pounds of fresh round fish. Also spelled kental or kintal in Newfoundland.

quintal = 2) a hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Also 100 kg or a metric quintal and various values around 100 pounds in different countries.

quintal = 3) also a modern measure equal to 100 kg or 220.46 pounds. Abbreviated as ql.

quiver tip = a very flexible and therefore sensitive tip on the end of a fishing rod used to indicate bites when ledgering, q.v. It may be spliced on, a screw in tip that fits into a special end eye on the rod, or a push in tip that is pushed onto the end of the rod. The quiver tip is set up at a right angle to the line with a slight bend in it attained by tightening the line. If the fish pulls it bends the tip further, if it swims towards the rod the tip straightens out. A black target board with white stripes can be placed on a separate stick behind the quiver tip. It enables the angler to spot any slight tip movement and protects the tip from wind.

quivering = side to side head movements, a sign of courtship in many male fishes, particularly cichlids. The female may or may not respond by doing the same.

quoad = as to, as regards, with respect to. Used in citations in taxonomy to indicate which part of a taxon as circumscribed by an earlier author is being referred to by the present author.

quod = to fish for eels using several worms strung on a thread of worsted. The fine teeth of the eels catch in the worsted (compactly twisted woolen yarn). See also clatting.

quota = amount of catch or harvest allocated in a time period by a governmental authority. It may refer to a fishery as a whole or to the amount allocated to an individual (individual quota) or company of the total allowable catch, q.v., from a stock. Also the transferable shares in the total quota for a stock (an individual transferable quota). Quotas may or may not be transferable, inheritable, and tradable. Can be used also to allocate fishing effort or biomass. Not a trip limit (q.v.) although used in this sense by some fishers.

quota hopping = vessels registered in one country, e.g. of the European Union, and fishing against that country’s quota, but ultimately owned by a company in another member state, and often landing most of its catch in the owner’s country.

quota management = managing the fishery by specifying how much fish may be caught from any given stock and who gets to catch it (by fleets or individuals). Quotas vary so as to keep fishing mortality rate steady. See also allowance.

quota share = a permit with a face value used as a basis for the annual calculation of a person's individual quota.

quotations = an arbitrary selection follows and also includes proverbs, rhymes, fragments of show tunes, and ditties (as Q lacks piscine entries). Some other proverbs appear in the letter files:-

1 = "Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land".....Plutarch. 46 (?)-120 (?) A. D. Symposiacs, Book viii, Question viii.

2 = "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men".....Matthew, 4, 19.

3 = "And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him".....Mark, 1:17-18.

4 = "Like a fish out of water".....attributed to St. Athanasius, A.D. 373.

5 = "All is fish that comes to the net".....ca. 1520.

6 = "The best fish keep the bottom"....ca. 1566.

7 = "There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it"..... ca. 1573.

8 = "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".....Chinese proverb.

9 = "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day".....modern version of the Chinese proverb.

10 = "Big fish eat small fish".....Chinese proverb.

11 = "A dried fish cannot be used as a cat's pillow".....Chinese proverb.

12 = "A fishing-rod has a fool at one end and a fish (or worm) at the other".....The Indicator, L. Hunt, 1819.

13 = "The fish sees the bait, not the hook; a person sees the gain, not the danger".....Chinese proverb.

14 = "Schools of fish come to those who wait patiently; if the big ones don't come, the little ones will".....Chinese proverb.

15 = "We have here other fish to fry".....Rabelais, c. 1490-1553.

16 = "She is neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring".....John Heywood, ca. 1497-1580.

17 = "That great fishpond (the sea)".....The Honest Whore, 1604, Thomas Dekker.

18 = "The play, I remember, pleased not the million: 'twas caviare to the general".....Hamlet, 1601, W. Shakespeare.

19 = "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm".....Hamlet, 1601, W. Shakespeare.

20 = "A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell".....The Tempest, 1611, W. Shakespeare.

21 = "As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler".....The Compleat Angler, 1653, Izaak Walton.

22 = "I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle".....The Compleat Angler, 1653, Izaak Walton.

23 = "I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing".....The Compleat Angler, 1653, Izaak Walton.

24 = "Death is a fisherman, the world we see
          His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be".....Anonymous, Death's Trade, 17th Century.

25 = "To fish in troubled waters".....Mathew Henry, 1662-1714.

26 = "Why then send lampreys? fie, for shame!
        'Twill set a virgin's blood on flame.
        This to fifteen a proper gift!
        It might lend sixty-five a lift".....John Gay, To a Young Lady with some Lampreys, from Poems, 1720.

27 = "Lamprey's a most immodest diet:
        You'll neither wake nor sleep in quiet".....John Gay, To a Young Lady with some Lampreys, from Poems, 1720.

28 = "Haddock, cod, turbot, and ling,
        Of all; the fish i' th' sea, herring's the king,
        Up started the flowk and said, here am I,
        And ever since that his mouth stands awry".....English folk rhyme (flowk being a fluke or flatfish).

29 = "A Scilly ling,
        Is a dish for a king".....English folk rhyme.

30 = "Never a fisherman need there be,
        If fishes could hear as well as see".....English folk rhyme.

31 = "When the wind's in the north,
        The skilful fisher goes not forth,
        When the wind's in the south,
        It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth".....English folk rhyme.

32 = "And angling, too, that solitary vice".....Lord Byron, Don Juan (1819-1824).

33 = "Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures".....Mardi, 1849, Herman Melville.

34 = "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk".....Journal, 1850, Henry David Thoreau.

35 = "Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish".....Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910, Mark Twain.

36 = "And this is good old Boston,
        The home of the bean and the cod,
        Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots,
        And the Cabots talk only to God".....Springfield Sunday Republican, 14 December 1924, John Collins Bossidy.

37 = "Fish got to swim and birds got to fly".....Show Boat, 1927, Oscar Hammerstein.

38 = "Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
         And he shows them pearly white,
         Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,
         And he keeps it out of sight".....The Threepenny Opera, 1928, Bertolt Brecht.

39 = "All men are equal before fish".....Herbert Hoover.

40 = "Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water".....Indian proverb.

41 = "It is not a fish until it is on the bank".....Irish proverb.

42 = "Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth".....Saudi Arabian proverb.

43 = "Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake".....Chinese proverb.

44 = "Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently".....Chinese proverb.

45 = "To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing".....Chinese proverb.

46 = "At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish".....Thai proverb.

47 = "There is an eel under every rock".....Latin proverb.

48 = "Fish begin to stink from the head".....Proverb in many European countries, Persia and Turkey, meaning all corruption comes from the government or the upper classes.

49 = "Piscis primum a capite foetet".....Latin for "Fish stinks from the head first".

50 = "Pisces natare doces"..... Latin for "You're teaching fish how to swim"; literally, you are wasting your time.

51 = "Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish".....Latin proverb (Ovid).

52 = "Fish and guest go bad on the third day and must be thrown out".....Proverb in many European and Asian countries with variations such as the fish and guest being poison, odious, old, wearisome, smelling, stinking, etc. but all giving three days as the limit.

53 = "A fish follows the bait".....English proverb.

54 = "Dead fish always go with the stream".....English proverb.

55 = "Fish must swim thrice"..... i.e. in water, sauce and wine, English, Scottish and Polish proverb (butter replacing sauce in Poland).

56 = "It is a courts as it is in ponds; some fish, some frogs".....English proverb.

57 = "Fish swim best that are bred in the sea".....English proverb.

58 = "It is no use fishing in front of the net".....English and Siamese proverb; in the latter the net is a trap.

59 = "Affairs, like salt fish, ought to be a good while a-soaking".....English proverb.

60 = "Turkeys, carps, hops, pickerel and beer, came into England all in one year".....English proverb, the year being suggested as 1520.

61 = "There are white flowers on the fisherman's garden".....Irish proverb, meaning the sea is white with breakers.

62 = "The miser's wedding - a potato and a herring".....Irish proverb.

63 = "Life to men and death to fish".....Manx proverb.

64 = "One at a time is good fishing".....Scottish proverb.

65 = "All's fish that comes to the net".....Scottish proverb.

66 = "Don't gut your fish till you get them".....Scottish proverb.

67 = "Let every herring hang by its own tail".....Scottish proverb.

68 = "Daughters and dead fish are no keeping ware".....Scottish proverb.

69 = "A fish from the river, a tree from the forest, a deer from the mountain, are thefts no man was ever ashamed of".....Scottish proverb.

70 = "Put your hand in the creel, take out an adder or an eel".....Scottish marriage proverb.

71 = "Dry pants eat no fish".....Bulgarian and Montenegrin proverb.

72 = "The fish does not go after the the hook, but after the bait".....Czech proverb.

73 = "The fish comes to the rod of him who waits".....Estonian proverb.

74 = "When the fish is in the net it wants to get out; when it is out it wants to get in".....Estonian marriage proverb.

75 = "One gets the fish one fishes for".....Estonian proverb.

76 = "Cheap fish - thin glue".....Estonian proverb.

77 = "If a hunter goes into the forest, put the pot aside; if the fisherman goes to fish, put the pot on the fire".....Estonian proverb.

78 = "The child also is a help, it cleans one fish and eats two".....Finnish proverb.

79 = "Catching one fish is always fishing".....French proverb.

80 = "He fishes on who catches one".....French proverb.

81 = "If one is a bird one is plucked, if a fish one is scaled".....German proverb.

82 = "A woman and a fish speak like two men".....German proverb.

83 = "Women and fish are best in the middle".....German proverb.

84 = "The fish said. "I have much to say, but my mouth is full of water"".....Georgian proverb.

85 = "Go to the sea if you would fish well".....Italian proverb.

86 = "Woe to the city in which a fish costs more than an ox".....Latin proverb.

87 = "Men make for the shallows, fish for the deep".....Latvian proverb.

88 = "A fisherman is wise in the morning, a shepherd in the evening".....Livonian proverb.

89 = "A fish bites best on a silver hook".....Norwegian proverb.

90 = "No fish without bones, no woman without a temper".....Polish proverb.

91 = "The fish dies by its mouth".....Portuguese and Spanish proverb, meaning silence is golden.

92 = "Where there is no fish, even the crayfish is deemed fish".....Russian proverb.

93 = "You catch fish in troubled waters".....Russian proverb.

94 = "One fisherman sees another fisherman from afar".....Russian proverb.

95 = "In the pond of lies only dead fish swim".....Russian proverb.

96 = "Good luck is an eel in the pond of fools".....Russian proverb.

97 = "Who owns the shore owns the fish".....Russian and Ukrainian proverb.

98 = "A fisherman's mother seldom dines, a hunter's never".....Serbian proverb.

99 = "The eel escapes quickest when it is held fastest".....Silesian proverb.

100 = "One throws away the baked fish when one sees the fresh fish".....Burmese proverb.

101 = "Water does not enter the heart of a fish".....Burmese proverb, Shan States, meaning a little brother cannot enter the thoughts of an older one.

102 = "Every pond has its fish, every dog has its owner".....Burmese proverb, Shan States, meaning no one is so poor as to be without possessions.

103 = "Fowls in a hencoop and fishes in a net, can all be caught with the hand".....Chinese proverb.

104 = "Swiftly running water is a good place to catch fish".....Chinese proverb, meaning have your business on a busy street.

105 = "There is often a space between the fish and the fish-plate.....Chinese proverb.

106 = "A fish on a wall, like cash, has but one eye".....Chinese proverb.

107 = "Fish see the bait but not the hook, men see the profit but not the peril".....Chinese proverb.

108 = "The fish that gets away is always a large one".....Chinese proverb, meaning stolen items are always the best; see later too.

109 = "Near putrid fish you'll stink, near epidendrum you'll be fragrant".....Chinese proverb.

110 = "Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish".....Chinese Tao proverb, meaning don't overdo it.

111 = "He who sees the sky in water sees fishes in the trees".....Chinese proverb.

112 = "The fish that has to live in the water should not make an enemy of the alligator".....Indian and Sri Lankan proverb.

113 = "It is vain to look for yesterday's fish in the house of the otter".....Hindi proverb.

114 = "The fish is still in the river, and the woman is pounding chillies" (to eat it with).....Punjabi proverb, meaning don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

115 = "The flowers of the fig tree, a white-coloured crow, a fish's feet in the water one may see but not what is in a woman's mind".....Sanskrit proverb.

116 = "Small fish flock where big ones are".....Japanese proverb.

117 = "No fish in clear water".....Japanese proverb.

118 = "A fish is larger for being lost".....in various countries expressed in various ways with various meanings form the literal to the figurative; Turkish, Japanese proverb; see also above.

119 = "The fish that is golden shall swim in the sun".....Japanese proverb.

120 = "One does not discuss the price of a fish that is still in the sea".....Kurdish proverb.

121 = "Anything with scales counts as a fish".....Malayan proverb, meaning accepting what comes to hand.

122 = "Different holes have different fish".....Malayan proverb, meaning different men have different ways.

123 = "Let the fish be caught, but let not the fish-spear be bent".....Malayan proverb, meaning act with discretion.

124 = "Fish perish through bait".....Malayan proverb, meaning men are tempted to ruin by women.

125 = "Wherever there is water there is fish".....Malayan proverb, meaning there is no smoke without fire. Also in Cambodia.

126 = "The fish gives laws to the fishes".....Southern Nigerian proverb.

127 = "About a sweet fish there is danger".....Gold Coast proverb.

128 = "Familiarity is like the sea which kills the fisherman".....Ugandan proverb.

129 = "So-and-so is a fish from a well".....Northern Nigerian proverb, meaning a shy man.

130 = "He who knows how to bend the fish-hook, knows how to straighten it".....Northwest Tanganyikan proverb.

131 = "A traveller does not buy raw fish".....Southern Nigerian proverb.

132 = "Fish that do not feed on other fish do not get proper nourishment:".....Southern Nigerian proverb.

133 = "Take not the fish from your neighbour's net lest a bone stick in your throat".....Senegambia proverb.

134 = "Fish follow their river".....Portuguese South African proverb, meaning people support their own family or tribe.

135 = "Don't rejoice over the finding of decayed fish, for what killed it would have eaten it if it had been good".....Northern Nigerian proverb.

136 = "When the fish is fresh is the time to bend it".....Northern Nigerian proverb.

137 = "Cunning does not kill the fish; the killer of the fish is the net".....Nyasaland proverb.

138 = "A fisherman will die drowned".....Basutoland proverb.

139 = "The fish in the trap begins to think".....Swahili proverb in Zanzibar.

140 = "Hunger sleeps in the house of two fishermen".....Swahili proverb in Zanzibar.

141 = "The real fish is the first one".....former Portuguese East Africa, meaning be satisfied with the first wife, or with an only child.that has died and no more are born.

142 = "Fish remain in the curves of the river".....former Portuguese East Africa, meaning men remain where there is peace.

143 = "When a fish is killed, its tail is put in its mouth".....Southern Nigerian proverb, said of those who reap the fruits of their misfortune.

144 = "He who goes with fish must eat worms".....Surinam proverb.

145 = "Fishermen never see the fish's stink".....Georgian proverb, meaning one's own child is good.

146 = "The bigger the fish the more butter him take".....Jamaican proverb.

147 = "All kind of fish eat man, only shark get blame".....Jamaican proverb.

148 = "When the bait is worth more than the fish, 'tis time to stop fishing".....American proverb.

149 = "Your luck ain't always equal to the length of your pole".....American proverb.

150 = "The size of your fish has made you disloyal".....Maori proverb, meaning too great luck has made you arrogant.

151 = "Taking an eel by its tail and a woman at her word leaves little in the hand".....Swedish proverb.

152 = "Rather endure the flatulencies (or gurgling) of the camel than the prayers of the fishes".....Arabic proverb.

153 = "Those who wear pearls do not know how often the shark bites the leg of the diver".....Abyssinian proverb.

154 = "The junk capsizes and the shark has his bellyful".....Malayan proverb.

155 = "You need to bait the hook to catch the fish".....unattributed proverb.

156 = "All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet".....unattributed proverb.

157 = "You can't free a fish from water".....unattributed proverb.

158 = "Summertime and the living is easy,
          Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high".....Porgy and Bess, 1935, Ira Gershwin and Du Bose Heyward.

159 = "Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows".....Equality, 1938, R. H. Tawney.

160 = "Everything seems beautiful because you don’t understand. Those flying fish, they’re not leaping for joy, they’re jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There’s no beauty here, only death and decay".....I Walked with a Zombie, 1942, Curtis Siodmak and Jacques Tourneur.

161 = "This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time".....Speech, 24 May 1945, Aneurin Bevan.

162 = "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"....attributed to Gloria Steinem but a graffito of the 1970s.

163 = "Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans stuff ’em and hang ’em on the wall".....Sean Donlon, 23 October 1981, Washington Post.

164 = "Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor"....America: A User's Guide, 1990, Simon Hoggart.

165 = "Caviar comes from virgin sturgeon,
           Virgin sturgeon's a mighty fine fish,
           Virgin sturgeon needs no urgin',
            That's why caviar is my dish!"....Anonymous.

166 = "Shad roe comes from scarlet shad fish,
          Shad fish have a very sad fate,
          Pregnant shad fish is a sad fish,
          Got that way without a mate!".....Anonymous.

167 = "The trout is just a little salmon,
          Just half-grown, and minus scales,
          But the trout, just like the salmon
          Can't get on without his tail!".....Anonymous.

168 = "Give a thought to the happy codfish,
          Always there when duty calls,
          Female cod fish is an odd fish,
          From her come your cod fish balls!".....Anonymous.

169 = "Who hears the fish when they cry?".....Henry David Thoreau, 1849

170 = "To believe that a frog is a fish because it lives in the water" (appearances can be deceiving).....Dominican proverb

171 = "Piscem natare doces" (you're teaching a fish to swim).....Latin proverb

172 = "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"..... William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. iii

173 = "No fog, no fish, out of the fog and into the fat, the more fog, the more fish"..... Newfoundland proverb

174 = "No curlew, no herring"..... Labrador proverb based on the erroneous belief that curlew ate herring.

175 = "As cold as a cod's nose".....Newfoundland proverb

176 = "Codfish is cod by name and by nature".....Newfoundland proverb

177 = "No cod, no cash".....Newfoundland proverb

178 = "Sly as a conner.....Newfoundland proverb (a conner is the wrasse Tautogolabrus adpserus)

179 = "A March-wisher is never a good fisher".....English proverb from Devon, meaning unknown, but presumably referring to the early season being unproductive

180 = "As dry as a hake"..... English dialect, meaning very thirsty

181 = "When there are no fish, even a crab is a fish" the Russian equivalent to the English proverb “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”.

© Brian W. Coad (www.briancoad.com)

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