Fish – Positions

Introduction

Fishes (and dolphins) occur in heraldry, though they are not particularly common. There is a small specialised vocabulary for their positions, for example to describe whether they are head up or head down. The terms, like many in heraldry, are from old French:

The terms used for fish are:

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