I dont trust this story. It just smells too fishy to me.

Customer : ISS

Order Summary: Assortment of fresh fish

Order Processed: 14:00 GMT

Your account will be debited accordingly.

Thank you for your custom.

Beardy Branson would charge them a fortune for the privalege

(Chose the Linux penguin just for the fish link, if you're wondering)

That went wherever I did go.

"..So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.."

All this, motion sickness talk makes me feel a bit green around the gills...

Fish don't have knuckles, do they?

Surely all the water will spill out of the bowl during the flight?

Mines the wet suit with the flowery flippers

I'll get my wetsuit and snorkel...

This sounds like the sort of thing B-Grade horror movies start with!

Fish can tumble when they get ammonia / nitrite poisoning.

i.e.: fish poo when stressed, that's why when you get home the bag is full of detritus. "Ammo" tablets will alleviate some of that. More importantly, they tumble as their swim bladders burst -- which is extremely like to happen during launch.

I imagine they will be going up in bags or tupperware "lunch" boxes -- as water weighs a hell of a lot, never mind the glass holding it.

I bet Paris Hilton would have better ideas.

I bet the Muppets wish they'd had more imagination!

But seriously, the only way to know for sure - in light of the erudite and incisive advice above - would be to include one of theose 'Fish Castles' in the bowl and see if they manage to swim through the arch while weightless.

My worry is how the poor things will manage the manual re-entry procedures (if necessary), and how they'll cope with extra vehicular activity should running repairs be required.

And if they are German Fishtronauts, might they be taken ill (but not life threatening) while in space?

So where do they get the oxygen from? The fish I've got wouldn't survive very happily in a sealed water environment - combine that with weightlessness I can imagine they'll either be swimming in globules of water, or suffocating in watertight containers.

Either way, paves the way for a catch and release scheme on the ISS eventually. I'm sure they'd love that to combat the boredom.

Mine's the parka jacket next to the waders.

"Fish don't have knuckles, do they?"

Wot? You never 'eard of fish fingers?

<snatch coat>

<SLAM!>

"TAXI!"

They spend unholy amount of money to blast couple of shushi v1.0s to orbit?

Has anybody else got the feeling that they are running out of meaningful things to do in space and are just spending their research funds any way they can?

I, for one, welcome our new, fishy, overlords.