Fish on dry land - GIF

[Altair]

Fish on dry land. Cause uncertain.




Previously:

Aerial fish stocking - GIF
Whooshh tubes for transporting live fish - GIF, image, video
Fishing tournament cheaters busted - video
Fish farm moving with waves - GIF
Fish farming vessel - GIF

[carloski]

What's the purpose?

[sossol]

What's the purpose?

There's water flowing with and pushing the fish, so I'm guessing that this has a cause, but not a purpose.

Neil

[Frank S]

Most likely a school of fish known as a climbing Pearch, Anabas testudineus, native to southeast Asia, can crawl on dry land by dragging itself by the gills—and it can survive there for almost a week.

[schuylergrace]

That looks like they were dumped out of a fish stocking truck. It could have been an accident, or maybe the truck got stuck in the sand and had to dump part/all of its load. That appears to be a dry track in the middle of a desert area, not a wash, so I doubt surface water ever runs down it. And notice that all the fish are concentrated in one area, and they are all about the same (big fingerling) size.

[Bony]

Something fishy going on here.

[Hoosiersmoker]

Lemming fish?

[mlochala]

I bet the raccoons, coyotes, and other various scavengers came for miles.