Does the ocean get its smell from the fish in it, or do the fish get their smell from the ocean?

Question

Or do they both get their smell from something else?

Answer 1

That is a good question, I would guess that because the ocean is so large compared to the amount of fish it it that fish have very very little impact on it's smell. Now that might not be true of a beach, which might be what we smell when we think we are smelling the ocean. I am guessing that the ocean and fish don't actually smell the same now that I think about it a little more.

Answer 2

considiring that there a variety of fishes in the ocean and they all smell the same it is safe to assume that the fishes get their repulsive smell from the ocean and its organic matter. By the way havent u noticed that fresh water fishes and salt water fishes smell different.

Answer 3

I would think of the smell coming fromallthe different salts that are put in the oceans! That's probably why EVERYBODY smells after swimming in the ocean!

Answer 4

Smell comes from small arisol particles that detach from the object in question and float into your nose. Water from the ocean, and all the goodies inside, float microscopically to your nose, and that is the smell. Unless particles are detaching from the fish, then the smell is oceanic.

Answer 5

depends on where you are in relation to the ocean.

If you are near the fisheries, then the smell is definitely from the fish/seafood being harvested.

If you are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the smell is salt spray.

Answer 6

They have both smelled that way since women were allowed to swim in it!!!! Now we'll never get the smell off the fish!

Answer 7

The ocean smells like the sea shells to me, and the sea shells smells like the ocean, the fish smell fishy, some a little more fishy than the others, and it`s like a poem I read, that tells about a skunk who sat on a stump, and thunk and thunk and thunk, and he thunk that the stump stunk! and the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.lol

Answer 8

The distinctive sea smell of seaweed or the beach at low tide is dimethyl sulphide CH3SH3C. Very fresh fish has no smell. As it ages, you start to smell amines, which are compounds with a NH2 group in them. These are quite different types of compounds.

Answer 9

The fish get their smell from themselves, because they are a biologically active system and produce hormons, urina and other smelling substances.

The ocean get its smell from fish excrements as well as decomposing other biomass like shellfish, alga, crustacea, plants etc. and particularly in my coastal area of Black Sea also from human wastewaters.

Answer 10

i don't know about that particular question but please consider the following: a blue whale produces 400 gallons of sperm every time it mates, but only ten percent of that actually make it inside of its mate, so this means 360 gallons of its sperm is spilled into the ocean every time a blue whale mates, this is a possible theory as to why the ocean water is so salty, and maybe this is why the ocean water smells