This is not the first time we’ve noted fish in the Gowanus, but it’s the first time we’ve had photos of them. We found these guys near the Carroll Street Bridge and there were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of them. We noticed them because some were jumping out of the water at leaves floating on the surface that they thought were food. (We could insert a joke here about the fish jumping and the oil in the top shot, but the Gowanus has taken enough of a beating lately.) Unfortunately, many of these fish are involuntary visitors to the Gowanus, getting sucked into the flushing tunnel intake in the Buttermilk Channel and ending up in the canal, but the overall point that we make often whenever we run photos showing the life around, on and in the Gowanus is that the improved conditions of the last decade really do support a variety of creatures.