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The half-naked hatchetfish: one of Slovenia’s many underwater monsters. (source)

I love fish. I also love obsessive-compulsive cataloguing of any kind. And that’s why Fishbase is the greatest web site in the history of the universe.

Want to know what kind of fish are currently swimming in Slovenian waters? Here you go. Eight wonderful, detailed pages of them.

Browsing through the specimens, I realized two things:

1) Slovenian fish are almost universally monstrous. Really. It’s like looking at horror film extras. It seems that only the most grotesque and untouchable (not to mention inedible) fish have survived centuries of overfishing in the Adriatic. The corkwing wrasse is about as pretty as it gets. You certainly won’t find any of the beauties of the Caribbean anywhere. Nor will you find my personal favorites: the yellowtail damselfish or the great barracuda.

2) I’m never swimming in the Adriatic ever again.

Have a nice weekend!

Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 to Slovenia

Comments

  • 1

    I really shouldn’t have read this. :( I liked our sea (or should I say pond? :)) so far.

         by Masha on August 25, 2006 at 9:50 am

  • 2

    I find it hard to believe that such monsters are swimming in this little pond of ours (as Masha so eloquently put it). I mean, Northern Adriatic is much more than those five pints of Slovenian salt water. Besides - where are the mullets (ciplji)?!?

         by pengovsky on August 25, 2006 at 10:07 am

  • 3

    Hi…

    Nice funny blog…after reading most of your posts I can see you’re impressed by ex-yu , so when are you moving somewhere here :)?

         by svarozich on August 25, 2006 at 11:58 am

  • 4

    When looking at the Slovenian fish catalogue, somehow Morphine’s ‘Sharks Patrol These Waters’ springs to mind :-p

         by Arf on August 25, 2006 at 12:35 pm

  • 5

    With a barracuda that size, you don’t watch it, it watches you!

         by Anonymous on August 25, 2006 at 1:33 pm

  • 6

    Hm, YELLOWtail damselfish? I see blue.

         by alcessa on August 25, 2006 at 2:20 pm

  • 7

    What a marvelously butt-ugly fish you put for the main photo! I will now go look at the other fishes! Maybe I’ll see some fish I’ve eatten and didn’t know the name of!

         by Katja on August 25, 2006 at 2:56 pm

  • 8

    Well I found two species I’ve prepared and eatten while in Croatia, a lovely blue and gray fish and one that looks sort of like a catfish.

         by Katja on August 25, 2006 at 3:28 pm

  • 9

    alcessa: I think the yellow tail comes after puberty.

         by Michael M. on August 27, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  • 10

    hehe Rhinobatos rhinobatos looks like Voyager :)

         by trik on August 28, 2006 at 10:02 am

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