Unusual Fish-heads

When I was growing up in northwest Pennsylvania, a familiar chant at the dinner table was "fish-heads and rice, fish-heads and rice", apparently referring to more monotonous dinners or cuisines that supported human life.

Last night, a West Palm Beach television station showed a large hammerhead shark taken from shallow ocean waters. Not long ago, a local West Palm Beach newspaper described a novel scheme to 'bury' human remains on the ocean floor together with cement/stone monuments -- hence, perhaps, the piscine demonstration of past damage already done resulting from dumping cast-offs on the ocean floor.

The number of different fish varieties that have unusual head shapes or formations might well be directly the result from human activity of various sorts, more than just a theory.

The rockfish develop symphyseal nodes near transplanted palm-tree regional zones, bottom lip/jawbone folded down analogous to a sort of jape also apparent among human populations subject to the incursions of international populations near ocean shorelines. Rarely are these seen in supermarkets, because they can be seen crammed under large rocks near harbor shorelines, trying not to drown or be dashed to bits as tour boat operators, fishing-party expeditions and commercial fishing companies rake their fellows from oxygen-bearing coastal waters, and while deep-sea creatures swarm nearby as arrayed near palm-trees transplanted from mid-ocean islands.

Some deep-sea fish have spelunker-type head extensions that guide them from to and from potential entrapment in ways that mere whiskers cannot, in the manner of grotesque deformed butterflies. Markings and colors may also well demonstrate the "close scrapes" of contact with human machinery and devices, giving further warning that adaptation might not possible and aquatic support of the human species become conditional.