do fishes drown?

Answer 1

No,
Fish have gills and if you pull them out of the water and leave them in the air then they will die of oxygen starvation, but that isn't drowning. Drowning happens when the air absorption material is blocked so oxygen can't get absorbed.

Drowning happens when a creatures' lungs get too much water in them and they can't absorb the oxygen they need. The breathing reflex is a very strong one so any creature underwater for a few minutes will have no choice but to breathe in the water. They may know it will kill them, but their body and their reflexes don't and they will try to breathe in the water.

If an animal, that breathes, takes water into its lung then it starts to drown as the oxygen absorbing system is blocked by the water. If a fish is killed by being taken out of the water then it doesn't have anything blocking its oxygen absorption system, it just doesn't have the water borne oxygen to absorb—that is oxygen starvation.

Gills and lungs only work one way and in one medium. Amphibians have to have both breathing systems to survive in water and in the air.

The second way you could think of drowning a fish would be to bring it down to the lower depths of the ocean. The higher pressure would crush the fish, but the gills are still not blocked. The fish will keep breathing up until the point where the pressure crushes it. The fish may have difficulty breathing because there will be less oxygen dissolved in the water, but again that is oxygen starvation. The fish will keep trying to breathe, and getting some oxygen, right up to the end.

If you put an air-breathing animal into a pure nitrogen atmosphere then it would die of oxygen starvation, it wouldn't be drowning in nitrogen, our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen. We can't get any benefit out of nitrogen though. Just as a fire needs oxygen to burn your body needs oxygen to operate. You don’t' have a real fire in your belly, but the chemicals that your body uses need to have oxygen, and a lot of it, for the chemical reactions to work. Without the oxygen you die. This is true for ALL animals, ALL Fish, and ALL insects. Even earthworms have to breathe.

If you bury and air breathing animal underground then wouldn’t it drown in the dirt? No, because the choking reflex would push the dirt out before it could block the lungs. When in water the incoming water can’t be expelled by the choking reflex. The water just goes past the throat constrictions and fills the lungs. Only a liquid can do that, so someone could drown in milk, beer, or soda just as they could drown in water.

Not all sharks have to keep moving. The nurse shark can sleep and stay still. The problem with the shark is that it requires a water flow over the gills. Fish can force that water to flow through their gills, but some sharks cannot. Still the shark isn't drowning, it is dying of oxygen starvation.

So fish don't drown, just as humans don't drown in air. We are adapted to remove oxygen from the air, and a fish is adapted to remove oxygen from the water. However, the key word is DROWN. Drowning only happens when the oxygen absorbing system is BLOCKED, not if it can't absorb the oxygen. Only animals that have lungs can drown.

Answer 2

No because they breathe and swim in the water for their whole life! How can they possibly drown? I think that you have choosen the wrong word, drown is like something that doesn't live or do anything in the water and if it falls into the water, it'll possibly GO TO THE BOTTUM , this is drown. If you mean DROWN in the fish way,then it would be sink. And yes, sink isn't the same meaning as DROWN!!

Answer 3

Some fish can in fact drown. these fish would include the well known labyrinth fish (siamese fighting fish, kissing gouramis, etc) They originate from murky, oxygen depleted waters, so they evolved by developing an organ just above their gills called the labyrinth organ. This labyrinth organ allows fish to take in oxygen directly from the atmosphere. Some fish are so dependent on this organ, that if they were unable to reach the surface of the water, they would drown.

Answer 4

Some actually fish do drown if held underwater.

Answer 5

dependson your meaning off drown when fish are out of water they look for water when humans are in water they look for air

Answer 6

Fish don't drown, but they can suffocate if there is not sufficient oxygen in the water.

Answer 7

a fish CAN drown if for some reason his gils are unable to push water through them.

Answer 8

Sharks have to keep moving to keep water flowing over thier gills. If they stop moving they can drown.

Answer 9

some can like those fighting fish betas thingys that are really colorful they have lungs that's why the can live in a small bowl and they take gulps of air also

Answer 10

Yes in a manner of speaking,when taken out of water the affect is the same. They suffocate just as mammals suffocate when kept under water.