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Quote: Originally Posted by dick benbow the problem with answering a question like that is that japanese to english looses a lot in translation! Then not knowing the context even adds to the difficulty. I consider young koi that have hatched but not yet completed their first growth summer as fry.

I assume you are joking?

Fry comes from middle English "frie" which has to do with seed or descendant. Pretty much all I can get from definitions is that it is the "young of fish". How about something like too small to eat or use as bait?