What is a correct plural of fish?

Answer 1

"Fish: the plural for one species of fish, or caught fish, is fish, but for live fish of many species, or in poetic usage, fishes is used."

To wit, technically, you would say, "I caught a lot of fish today" if you caught a lot of trout. Were you to have caught a lot of trout, bass and catfish you COULD say, "I have a lot of fishes in the live well that I caught out on the lake today". Of course, that's a dangling modifier, but we have no need to get into that.

Now wait for a bunch of people to answer your question without first reading the answers already given. :)

Answer 2

Some nouns spell their singular and plural exactly alike; these are regarded by some linguists as regular plurals. Many of these are the names of animals:

deer
fish (and many individual fish names: cod, mackerel, trout, etc.)
moose
sheep
The plural deers is listed in some dictionaries, but is considered by many to be an error.

Fish does have a regular plural form, but it differs in meaning from the unmarked plural; fishes refers to several species or other taxonomic types, while fish (plural) is used to describe multiple individual animals: one would say "the order of fishes," but "five fish in an aquarium." The plural fishes is found in the King James Bible, in the parable of the loaves and fishes, for example, and is also sometimes used for rhetorical emphasis, as in phrases like sleep with the fishes

Answer 3

1. Drama = Drama 2. Hard Time = hard - times 2. Medium = 3. Mediums / media 4. Food = Foods 5. Fish = Fishes 6. Person = People / Persons 7. Water = Water 8. Currency = Currencies 9. Vocabulary = Vocabularies 10. Jewelery = Jewelery 11. Clothes = Clothes 12. Fabric = Fabrics 13. Mactintosh = Macintosh 14. Cotton = Cottons 15 Traffis = Traffic Think that's right - some words are exceptable - such as traffics - although it's not in common usage

Answer 4

fish is considered plural when we talk of the whole species as one, collectively. But when we want to specify a number we use the word fishes, for example: We get good fish here. He liked those two fishes in the pond.

Answer 5

I believe fish is mostly plural as just fish. As in, "I caught some fish today"! Wouldn't sound right if you said, "I caught some fishes today"!
It would sound correct enough both ways if you said, "There are several types of fish in this tank"!, or said, "There are several types of fishes in this tank"!
I don't REALLY know. They must have taught that when they moved me from the first grade to the third grade.

Answer 6

Fish does have a regular plural form, but it differs in meaning from the unmarked plural;
fishes refers to several species or other taxonomic types, while fish (plural) is used to describe multiple individual animals.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural

Answer 7

Fish. Singular is plural

Answer 8

Some strong opinions here on 'fish'!

However, my Oxford American Dictionary lists "Fishes" and "Fish" as the plural(s) of Fish.

Best wishes.

Answer 9

Fish.

Answer 10

plural of is fish is fishes.
plura means more than one.
example;-group of fishes