I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines. It is also called songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the waters, uttering a kind of whistle. Their livers are regarded as a delicacy. I had recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia ...
{Raiders of Gor, page 139}
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue four-spired Cosian wingfish. This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four splender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. The blue, four-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies."
{Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85}
~ Eel ~
Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, or various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies.
{Magicians of Gor, page 428}
Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros.
{Raiders of Gor, page 114}
~ Grunt ~
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stern, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
{Marauders of Gor, page 59}
Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pasteries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie.
{Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276}
I ran to the stern that I might watch. Half out of the water, then returning to it, I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled. It dove, and swirled away. Another man came to help with the line. I observed the struggle. One often fishes from the ships on Thassa, and the diet of the sailors consists, in part, of the catch. Part of each catch is commonly saved, to serve as bait for the next.
{Slave Girl of Gor, pages 359-360}
~ Marsh Shark ~
Trasnported from the marshes; filets or shark steaks
Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied,
nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks.
{Raiders of Gor, page 58}
