There are more than 4400 species of fish in Australia. Most of Australia's fish species are marine. 70% of Australia's freshwater fish have affinities with tropical Indo-Pacific marine species that have adapted to freshwater.
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“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The laying of fish on the embers,
the taste of the fish,
the feel of the texture of bread,
the round and the half-loaf,
the grain of a petal,
the rain-bow and the rain.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)