On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:24:55 +1000, Christian Gerzner
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Mark Bevelhimer wrote:
>(big snips)
>
>Hi Mark,
>
>> > I realized I couldn't keep my reputation as the list's resident fish
>> > biologist (actually one of two that I'm aware of) without a more
complete
>> > answer so I did a little more research on this fascinating topic. ;-
)  See
>> > below.
>
>Hey, who's the second one? :)

Not YOU, that's fer sho!  ;)

Who else but Kent Lind?   He was last seen a year ago muttering,
"Nobody knows anything about ice diving, and everyone who had never
done any ice diver were mouthing off about how it is done!"  :-))

Kent did contribute this tidbit about Alaska:

KL>  Here's a statistic for you:  According to State Dept of Tourism,
KL> Alaska has 33,904 miles of ocean shoreline.
KL> That is longer that the ocean shorelines of Mexico, Brazil, South
KL> Africa, Norway, and Australia COMBINED.

And Kent spends his days in Juneau which is inaccessible by LAND!  I
No road, i.e.  I learned that piece of trivia from my Alaskan cruise
which stopped in downtown Juneau.


>Yup. Seems to me, by what he says, that fish tend to infuse any gas
>they accumulate into their swim bladders and then, perhaps, excrete it
>from their gills (I'm saying this badly).

You're full of shit!  *I* am the world's authority on FISH farts!  :-))))

ElPezNeuvo.