This may SOUND stupid but I really wanna know!!!?

Question

Can a fish drown?

Answer 1

actually yes most fish have to move to keep water running over their gill. if not they start floating. look it up!! HOPE I HELPED!!!

Answer 2

Now using my expertly genius mind, I will attempt to

explain whether a fish can drowned or not! First a fish

LIVES UNDER WATER! wow the answer is NO!!! Give

me a spit medal and call me good. LOL. OK well yes

there are certain times when the oxygen level gets too

low due to the poor circulation of the water. Besides a

fish don't breath with ordinary lungs. they have gills that

absorb oxy. from the water.

Answer 3

yes fish can really drown! Fish, like people, need oxygen to live. A fish out of water is a fish out of it's element. A fish comes fully equipped with a pair of gills which it uses to breathe under water.
The gills extract life-sustaining oxygen from the hydrogen in the water molecules, in order to regulate the amount of oxygen intake. This maintains the necessary balance of the 2 components of water for the fish to survive.
When a fish is taken out of water, and exposed only to air, not to oxygen and hydrogen containing water, it's gills are unable to control the oxygen intake, the delicate balance cannot be maintained, and the gills inhale a leathal overdose of oxygen. The fish essentially experiences death by 'drowning'.

Answer 4

Yes, fish can technically drown -- but not in water. Check out this exerpt:

"Fish, like people, need oxygen to live.

A fish out of water, is a fish out of its element. A fish comes fully equipped with a pair of gills, which it uses to breathe under water. The gills extract life-sustaining oxygen from the hydrogen in the water molecules, in order to regulate the amount of oxygen intake. This maintains the necessary balance of the two components of water for the fish to survive.

When a fish is taken out of water, and exposed only to air, not to oxygen and hydrogen containing water, its gills are unable to control the oxygen intake, the delicate balance cannot be maintained, and the gills inhale a lethal overdose of oxygen. The fish essentially experiences death by "drowning." "

Answer 5

I had fish lots of goldfish in a tank the pump stopped working because of a power outage and after a while they started to swim sideways and some started to die. No air they drowned

Answer 6

Yes thats why you see the fish pop out of the water up to the surface, they don't have enough oxygen. They don't drown underwater because they have gills and water has some oxygen in it.

Answer 7

Actually in a way they can. If their gills stop processing water to get the oxygen they need out of it they can drown in a sort....not REAL drowning but close. More like just good old asphyxiation.

Answer 8

Yes, fish can drown. There are places in the ocean called dead zones, where there is not enough oxygen, and all the fish die.

Answer 9

No.... that would be like you or I "drowning" on the air we breathe. Fish "drown" outside of water ...we drown in water.

Answer 10

if you take a fish out of water, the fish drowns, so to speak.

fish get the oxygen needed for their survival from water, much as we humans get ours from breathing the air around us. if a fish is removed from water, he cannot get the oxygen he needs, much as if a human is held underwater, he also cannot get the oxygen he needs. same principle, only in reverse.

Answer 11

Yes they can if u pull a fish backwards through water he will drown. if you dont believe me then look it up