Sea life Guide

BARNACLES:
Desc: Small, hard shelled crustacean that attaches itself to submerged surfaces. The larvae are free swimming, but attach to surfaces as an adult.
Known Location: All the seas, ship bottoms, wharf piles, rocks, large fish, and shellfish.
Edible: No

BLOODFISH:
Desc: Parasitic fish with long, thin suckers that attach to open wounds (primarily on dolphins).
Known Location: All the seas.

BORDO:
Desc: Grey-striped fish as long as a man's forearm. Thin with bulging eyes (a relative to the packtail).
Known Location: Colder waters, Western Sea, Tillek Area.
Edible: Yes
DOLPHIN:
Desc: Bottle-nosed mammal, with skin of silver, grey, or blue, and are about the size of a man. They have a single crescent-shaped blowhole on the top of their head. Aka: Shipfish.
Known Location: All the Seas, some of the rivers.
Use: Affiliated with the DolphinCraft. They report where schools of fish are, weather conditions, where ships or other man-made things are, how to avoid obstacles at sea, etc...

FINGERTAIL:
Desc: Small carp-like fish with a whippy tail.
Known Location: Along the Coast of the Northern Continent, Nerat Bay.
Edible: Yes

PACKTAIL:
Desc: Looks like a Terran monkfish. Sharp spines, dangerously barbed. Mostly head with an oily slime over its scales that is quite potent and can harm skin.
Known Location: Nerat Bay, Eastern Sea.
Edible: Yes -a delicacy.
RAINBOW FISH:
Desc: Rainbow striped (?). Able to be caught and transported by a dolphin.
Known Location: Southern Sea and Coast of the Southern Continent.
Edible: Yes.

REDFIN:
Desc: Forearm length or longer fish with red fins.
Known Location: Southern Sea, Great Southern Current.
Edible: Yes.

SHELLFISH:
Desc: A 'catchall' term for aquatic animals not considered a fish, including spiderclaws.
Known Location: All the seas, Coastal Beaches, Coast of the Southern Continent.

SHIPFISH:
-See Dolphin.
I would like to thank Shadis for this wonderful information on Pern sea life.
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