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Fish has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 1, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
November 22, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
April 17, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 17, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
March 6, 2024	Good article nominee	Not listed
March 22, 2024	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Good article

Fishes Top‑importance

	Fish portal This article is part of WikiProject Fishes, an attempt to organise a detailed guide to all topics related to Fish taxa. To participate, you can edit the attached article, or contribute further at WikiProject Fishes. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of Life.FishesWikipedia:WikiProject FishesTemplate:WikiProject FishesFishes
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	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tree of Life, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of taxonomy and the phylogenetic tree of life on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Tree of LifeWikipedia:WikiProject Tree of LifeTemplate:WikiProject Tree of Lifetaxonomic
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Fisheries and Fishing Top‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of fisheries, aquaculture and fishing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Fisheries and FishingWikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and FishingTemplate:WikiProject Fisheries and FishingFishing
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Food and drink High‑importance

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Section sizes

Section size for Fish (43 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	4,651	4,651	452	452
Etymology	2,968	2,968	81	81
Evolution	45	17,176	0	596
Fossil history	5,000	5,000	103	103
Phylogeny	6,799	6,799	173	173
Taxonomy	1,426	1,426	120	120
Diversity	3,906	3,906	200	200
Ecology	15	11,624	0	492
Habitats	8,882	8,882	285	285
Parasites and predators	2,727	2,727	207	207
Anatomy and physiology	69	34,498	0	2,160
Locomotion	3,380	3,380	218	218
Circulation	1,006	1,006	102	102
Respiration	21	3,652	0	313
Gills	1,238	1,238	139	139
Air breathing	2,393	2,393	174	174
Digestion	917	917	115	115
Excretion	1,137	1,137	76	76
Brain	2,001	2,001	231	231
Sensory systems	6,122	6,122	242	242
Cognition	3,214	3,214	101	101
Electrogenesis	1,649	1,649	102	102
Endothermy	2,762	2,762	95	95
Reproduction and life-cycle	3,136	3,136	218	218
DNA repair	1,401	1,401	71	71
Defenses against disease	4,052	4,052	276	276
Behavior	16	8,780	0	556
Shoaling and schooling	2,048	2,048	180	180
Communication	6,716	6,716	376	376
Conservation	2,002	11,815	78	531
Overfishing	4,336	4,336	194	194
Other threats	5,477	5,477	259	259
Importance to humans	28	10,940	0	585
Economic	2,057	2,057	157	157
Recreation	1,368	1,368	105	105
Culture	7,487	7,487	323	323
See also	391	391	0	0
Notes	26	26	0	0
References	17	676	0	0
Footnotes	31	31	0	0
Sources cited	628	628	0	0
Further reading	2,450	2,450	0	0
External links	1,379	1,379	0	0
Total	107,374	107,374	5,453	5,453

Semi-protected edit request on 18 May 2026

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Please add this somewhere:

In the everyday sense, humans are not fish we are land-dwelling mammals, we breathe air with lungs, and we do not have fins or gills. But evolution makes the word “fish” messier than it first appears. Humans are tetrapods, and tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. If “fish” is used in a strict cladistic sense to include all descendants of those fish ancestors, then humans are technically nested inside the fish lineage. So humans are not fish in the ordinary sense, but in an evolutionary sense, we are highly modified descendants of fish, the fish that learned to walk, breathe air, and eventually argue about taxonomy on the internet. ~2026-19057-33 (talk) 13:48, 18 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. meamemg (talk) 14:56, 18 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's already covered in Fish#Phylogeny. cyclopia ^speak! 15:06, 18 May 2026 (UTC)Reply