Question: when i was young ‘fish’ was used for singular and plural. In recent years i’ve heard people use ‘fish’ and ‘fishes’ for plural. I was taught the latter was wrong, but maybe now it’s considered correct? Your thoughts?
Answer:
My dad was old school taught and he says that ‘fishes’ refers to multiple fish species. Otherwise, ‘fish’ is like ‘sheep’, to be used plural or singular.
So, it’s legit if it’s for multiple fish species. If you’re talking about a pen of a thousand salmon, then it’s ‘fish’ in the plural sense if the word. But a thousand ‘fishes’ in the coral reef because there are lots of different species.
