Can fishes drown?

Question

Can fishes drown?

Answer 1

YES!

Fish, like people, need oxygen to live.

A fish out of water, is a fish out of its element. A fish comes fully equipped with a pair of gills, which it uses to breathe under water. The gills extract life-sustaining oxygen from the hydrogen in the water molecules, in order to regulate the amount of oxygen intake. This maintains the necessary balance of the two components of water for the fish to survive.

When a fish is taken out of water, and exposed only to air, not to oxygen and hydrogen containing water, its gills are unable to control the oxygen intake, the delicate balance cannot be maintained, and the gills inhale a lethal overdose of oxygen. The fish essentially experiences death by "drowning."

Answer 2

If there's not enough oxygen in the water they suffocate.

Answer 3

Yes if water goes through their gills

Answer 4

i  dont  think  so

Answer 5

If you pull a fish by it's tail backwards, so that the water rushes through the gills, it will drown. The gills wont have time to absorb oxygen from the water.