distinctive qualities as foods.
The Paleness and Tenderness of Fish Flesh
Fish owe their small, light bones, delicate
connective tissue, and large, pale muscle
masses to the fact that water is much denser
than air. Fish can attain a neutral buoyancy —
can be almost weightless — simply by storing
some lighter-than-water oils or gas in their
bodies. This means that they don’t need the
heavy skeletons or the tough connective
tissues that land animals have developed in
order to support themselves against the force
of gravity.
A Health Inconvenience: Waxy Fish
There’s an unusual digestive consequence
to eating the fish called escolar and walu
(Lepidocybium flavobrunneum and
Ruvettus pretiotus). They, and to a lesser
extent the orange roughy, accumulate