It's hunting adventure in the jungles of Venus, told by an unreliable narrator. I completely missed the details of the scientific technique in the story - a chemical process (something about crystallization of salt) to entomb "fish" wholesale in a lake, fish that cannot be caught by normal methods. And the sensibilities here are disturbing, though probable - hunting an animal species nearly to extinction in one shot, over a couple of days, rather than over hundreds of years that has been the norm!
"Fish" in the story are "Porgill", larvae stage of "Nordiff" - a land animal that lays eggs in the lake.
Fact sheet.
First published:
Astounding, May
1941.
Download full text as part of the scans of
the magazine it originally appeared in.
Rating: B.
Among
the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
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