So engrained in English culinary culture are fish and chips that they were one of the few foods never rationed during World War II.

BBC: Chipping away at the history of fish and chips

At the Touro College School of Health Sciences in New York, Morris Benjaminson and his team are working on removing living tissue from fish, and then growing it in culture.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

NATO, which has spent half a century preparing for war, how much more true of the European Union, whose culture of horse-trading (my fish quota for your opt-out on social policy) is poorly suited to the sober, decisive thinking needed to run a military campaign.

ECONOMIST: Defending the Union

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure said it believed the fish died due to low water levels, increased temperature and a lack of oxygen.

BBC: dead fish

"The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water, " according to Klaus Toepfer, the agency's executive director, whose comments are included in the report.

CNN: U.N.: Iraq's marshlands recovering

The salmon that drew seafaring culture here in the 19th Century are also an attraction today, though now the fish is flown in directly from Alaska.

BBC: Daily deal: A night in Seattle

Nature Iraq promotes projects designed to make the marshes' revival sustainable, including plans for a fish hatchery, tourist development and environmentally conscious "Green Villages, " where marsh people can practice their traditional culture while enjoying access to modern education and health care.

NPR: Iraq's Marshlands Face A Second Death By Drought