What does this phrase mean: "The only fish we got around here swim in the dark"?

Question

Heard it on a movie and needed to know thanks.

Answer 1

well, do you want it taken literally or figuratively? A phrase like that can mean many things depending on the scenario.

Answer 2

It means that there are only bad people living in that town or that area.

Answer 3

It is meant to emphasize the pollution of our waters, particularly those where the outflow has radioactive particles in it. Like at the Love Canal where all the people had to move because there were brain tumors, miscarriages, cancers etc...all proved to be linked by water table contamination.  The Erin Brockovich movie handled the same topic.

Answer 4

sounds like fish in the sea but they are only evil or bad...

Answer 5

You would have to remember the context of the words.

There is no suggestion here that "dark" is "evil". To me it is a neutral statement.

I automattically thought of the exotic, and largely unknown, fish that swam in the dark, kilometers underwater, something like the giant squid that is being disected by New Zealand scientists at the present moment. It was found in the antartic waters, the first of its kind to be seen by man.

Just like the answers above, I can not claim that my answer is the correct one, as none of us knows the original context.

Answer 6

basically the water is so polluted, dont drink it... the chemicals in the water have made the fish radioactive....

Answer 7

i think it means this is like something of urs that is the only one and it is ruin. like mayb u have only one child and they join the gang they're now in the dark. well thats wat i htink.