How did Noah rescue all the freshwater fish?

Question

After the Great Flood, the planet was a waterworld, all mixed together, and hence it was salty. How did Noah rescue all the countless thousands of species of freshwater fish? Did he build aquariums out of wood?

Here's an interesting question: How much fresh water is needed to support a single fresh water fish? The answer is 1 gallon per inch of fish is the standard amount.

Forget animals, fresh water fish would take up FAR more of the total weight of the Ark, even if they'd been juvenile fish. Fresh water trout need cold water -- like 50 degrees, Tropical fish need a water temperature around 80 degrees. Did he have hand cranked refrigeration units and heaters?

Oh come on!!! many of you are saying that the oceans were actually fresh water? Fine. Then where did all the salt water fish come from after the Ark landed? or did they *snicker* "evolve" into salt water fish afterwords? Either way, my point is irrefutable.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah

Answer 2

He didn't take any fish on board. But there are all kinds of ways to speculate about how they survived, like surviving at the top with low salt content, being thrown into various places with freshwater flood and sea, having a greater tolerance of salt in time past, or perhaps the salt was not evenly distributed across the ocean at that time, not that it is today either.

Re: The introduction of salt into the ocean can be thought of as a direct result of ba"salt" suboceanic flows during the flood(i.e. "fountains of the deep"). This would later dilute with the rest of the ocean over time to get the salinity we have today. In the least, one should consider the possibility that overall salinity increased after the flood.

Re: Saltwater fish may very well have been freshwater fish at one point and grown accustomed to saltwater conditions, so no your point is not irrefutable. The article below, for example, has a testimony of a freshwater puffer fish being gradually acclimated to salt water.

Answer 3

well at the time of the flood there were not oceans
as we know them today, so the water was probably
fresh water...

then as the oceans settled and the land grew dry
the fish out in the larger ocean adapted to the
salt content generated by all the minerals and such
that were now all mixed in it from the masssive movements of
earth.

on dry land lake and rivers formed with the natural evaopration rain cycle and those fish trapped in the ensuing fresh water lakes
of course had no need to really adapt having only been in the
newer salt oceans for a little while..

Answer 4

Maybe it was a freshwater flood. But wait! How then, did the saltwater fish survive? Obviously, such a global flood never could have taken place. Where would all the water have come from? Where did it go? Because of the global nature of the flood, runoff is obviously out of the question, and it couldn't of evaporated, because then it would have just rained back down and flooded the earth all over again. Logic - 1 Bible - 0

Answer 5

Again with the "Flood " thing huh G.B.??? I'll give U a * for "Persistence" & an"F" in "Biblical Studies" & "Oceanography", K??? I guess U never had an Aquarium growing up??? If U had U would know U must Add "Salt" to "Fresh Water Fish Tanks" to control Algae. So, about the "Temp." thing, is the water at the Equator the same "Temp." as at the "Poles"??? And Exactly how "Diluted" do U think the "Oceans" became after the "Rains" did there thing??? Give up before U have to see a Dr. for Ur condition G.B.. John

Answer 6

Science has shown that the salt content of the ocean has increased over the centuries, and continues to do so today. If current models are correct, then the seas would have saltless enough to be below the threshold of what is considered "fresh water" about 4,000 BC - the time at which the Bible places the flood.

Answer 7

The rain reduced the salt of the water so both fresh and salt water fish could survive.

Answer 8

If the whole earth were covered by water in the flood, then there would have been a mixing of fresh and salt waters. Many of today's fish species are specialized and do not survive in water of radically different saltiness to their usual habitat. So how did they survive the flood?

Note that the Bible tells us that only land-dwelling, air-breathing animals and birds were taken on the ark (Genesis 7:14-15, 21-23).

We do not know how salty the sea was before the flood. The flood was initiated by the breaking up of the “fountains of the great deep” (Genesis 7:11). Whatever the “fountains of the great deep” were (see Noah's Flood—What did all the water come from?), the flood must have been associated with massive earth movements, because of the weight of the water alone, which would have resulted in great volcanic activity.

Volcanoes emit huge amounts of steam, and underwater lava creates hot water/steam, which dissolves minerals, adding salt to the water. Furthermore, erosion accompanying the movement of water off the continents after the flood would have added salt to the oceans. In other words, we would expect the pre-flood ocean waters to be less salty than they were after the flood.

The problem for fish coping with saltiness is this: fish in fresh water tend to absorb water, because the saltiness of their body fluids draws in water (by osmosis). Fish in saltwater tend to lose water from their bodies because the surrounding water is saltier than their body fluids.

Answer 9

Noah did'nt rescue anything. It is only a story . you can never build a boat big enough to put two of every animal inside of it. What about dinosaurs were they in the ark as well. Did Noah make the inside strong enough so the stronger animals like the elephants did'nt break free.

Answer 10

Noah had a tank of fresh water in the ark.

Answer 11

Salinization of the oceans happened after the flood . It is a proven fact that the oceans get saltier every year. If we backtrack 4000 years at the present salinization rate we get fresh water.... The flood happened whether you believe it or not.. Come to Christ!!!