Gregor Vukasinovič
Volcano Fishing
How Practical! If you get the timing just right, the fish come out already cooked!
Something I couldn't help wonder though, how is it possible there are even fish in the Laacher See in the first place? How did they get there? It's not much older than 10,000 years, which isn't much time at all in nature's reckoning. And the lake presumably has never been connected to any other body of water in that time. It's sitting at the bottom of a caldera after all.
So, how did the fish get there? I read a bit into that, and it turned out sometimes fish eggs get stuck on water birds. And this way they can get carried to another body of water and begin a population there. Life finds a way. Or humans just put them in there, that's also possible, I guess. If all else fails, life finds a taxi.
Do these fish still remember those original first fish in the lake? If not, do they have an Adam and Eve story to make up for that? Do they even care? Well, probably not; they're fish. And do they know there are millions of other lakes and streams outside their little lake? Many with fish of their own?
Perhaps most crucially: If one of the fishes sniffs on the mofettes too long and starts wondering about things like that, do the other fish call him crazy and exile him?
Volcano Fishing
How Practical! If you get the timing just right, the fish come out already cooked!
Something I couldn't help wonder though, how is it possible there are even fish in the Laacher See in the first place? How did they get there? It's not much older than 10,000 years, which isn't much time at all in nature's reckoning. And the lake presumably has never been connected to any other body of water in that time. It's sitting at the bottom of a caldera after all.
So, how did the fish get there? I read a bit into that, and it turned out sometimes fish eggs get stuck on water birds. And this way they can get carried to another body of water and begin a population there. Life finds a way. Or humans just put them in there, that's also possible, I guess. If all else fails, life finds a taxi.
Do these fish still remember those original first fish in the lake? If not, do they have an Adam and Eve story to make up for that? Do they even care? Well, probably not; they're fish. And do they know there are millions of other lakes and streams outside their little lake? Many with fish of their own?
Perhaps most crucially: If one of the fishes sniffs on the mofettes too long and starts wondering about things like that, do the other fish call him crazy and exile him?