Following up to Ian Northeast

>I don't think a Chilean Sea Bass/Icefish/Patagonian Toothfish/Mero has
>jewelled scales either. It's a cod like thing (but even more endangered).

The Spanish Mero I have seen does not have bright scales. The
fish I bought as Icefish in Waitrose had bright scales and my
Mexican cookbook shows a fish with bright large golden scales
which it calls a Bass, alongside a recipe for "lobina".
Basically, fish names are confusing!

>One of these perhaps:
>
>Beyond the shadow of the ship,
>I watched the water-snakes :
>They moved in tracks of shining white,
>And when they reared, the elfish light
>Fell off in hoary flakes.
>
>Within the shadow of the ship
>I watched their rich attire :
>Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
>They coiled and swam ; and every track
>Was a flash of golden fire.
>
>(from the Ancient Mariner, just before the Albatross falls off)

Now thats a very good parallel, isnt it. I wonder what species
the Ancient Mariner was talking about?
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