FISH OF THE WEEK - Royal Angelfish

Welcome back to Pete of FOTW following his mid-winter sojourn in Holland and thanks for dealing promptly with the latest controversy to hit FOTW. I am not sure I was the best beach life to be seen in Porquerolles last summer, but with the exception of the dive on Le Gabinieres, where a few large groupers were spotted, I was probably the best looking thing underwater. For our fish this week, we inevitably head back to the Red sea with this Royal Angelfish.

Fish of the Week - not at all gay!

It has been suggested, by someone close to the FOTW team that aswell as being 'crap' this website is in fact a bit 'gay'.

We at FOTW wish to put on record that we have no problem with anyone being gay, if people think our site is gay we don't care and we welcome contributors whatever their sexual orientation. Their is nothing wrong with matching pink fins and the term buddy can have many meanings, all of them positive.

In a desperate attempt to woo the gay visitor we have departed from our usual policy of posting only images of fish (and the occasional celebrity) to bring you this image of a very cheeky snorkellor. How gay is that?

Whale - A Nation Mourns

Who but the most coldhearted swine could fail to be moved by the plight of the whale spotted lost and alone in the Thames this week. Not only was he/she clearly lost/ill/confused/stressed but he/she had the misfortune to wash up in London. The only saving grace in this sorry tail (geddit) is that the poor bugger wasn't in the Mersey where he/she could have easily have been been put up on bricks with its fins nicked to put on the back of some scally dealer's Subaru.

PS. Psssst Anyone want to buy some blubber

FISH OF THE WEEK - Red Sea Anemonefish

For those of you who didnt get the shark joke, perhaps a picture of a a cute little anemone fish guarding his anemone will do.

SHARK (JOKE) OF THE WEEK

Once again we at FOTW have been tirelessly sifting through the one contribution from fish jokers around the world to bring you the best fish joke around. It was a close run thing but this one brought a smile to the joke editors face for all of 0.2 sec.

Q How do you shoot a great white shark?

A You hold his nose until he turns blue and then you shoot him with a blue shark spear gun.

Clown Fishes of the Week

This shoal of clown fishes were spotted on my dining room table following 15 hours of hard graft. Thanks to Rick of FOTW for giving me the the "Worlds Hardest Jigsaw" for Christmas. The puzzle has the same picture printed on both sides. All I can say is "Bring on the baked beans...." Well, not if you want to speak to me ever again because thats how long the baked beans puzzle would take me to complete.

REEF OF THE WEEK - ?

Thought we would start a new series of "Reef of the Week". This reef is in the Ras Mohammad National Park. Stunning isn't it. If you have some photos of reefs that you have dived send them in to tony@fishoftheweek.com for consideration as "Reef of the Week"

(Tasty) Fish of the Week

Well, we’ve been a bit quiet recently, apologies to all fish lovers looking for some Christmas fish jollies. Pete has been up to his neck in fluid in Holland over the New Year. I suspect like me, you are looking forward to seeing his underwater shots from the Zeider Zee.

If you have had time to read the newspapers over Christmas you might have also noticed the scraps some goldfish have been getting into. One poor soul (no pun intended) was found in the centre circle of a football pitch belonging to a professional football team (I forget the name) following some serious flooding. Floodwater had damaged his aquarium in a house in a near by street. Alas, no happy end here, he was found died. Spot the goldfish, however, was luckier. Having been snatched from a garden pond by a heron, Spot heroically struggled free whilst the heron deliberated over his forthcoming meal, whilst perched on a nearby chimneystack. Although Spot rapidly descended down the smoke filled chimney into a raging fire, his luck held, as he landed on a pile of potato peelings just thrown onto the fire and bounced out onto the hearth. At this point the surprised homeowner intervened and Spot has apparently made a full recovery in an old washing up bowl. You could not have made it up could you (and I didn’t, it’s all true)

This week’s fish of the week was in fact very tasty. Thanks to Ann in Rugby for grilling this chap for us on Boxing Day and a happy New Year to everyone.