To get the ball rolling
well...this is so unchartered territory. you'd think that fish are safe to eat, depending on the way of preparation, and sanitary conditions. but fish bones are a pain, and could even kill you. (YOU!...even You!).
bones can stick in the larynx, or even pierce the stomach.
but do fish themselves, particularly carnivorous fish, succumb at times , to the avenging bone, as it hurtles down their digestive tract, primed to exact a deadly toll to the gregarious pices?
i submit to you that sea animals, through years of close calls, are perhaps more diligent in their cullinary self-actualization. but they have lost much in the process of evolution, as they abandoned prehansile digits, in favor of fins. i shall hazard, that a fish considers a chance at eating with equal parts excitment and concern. it would be like to mounted knights , preparing for a jousting tournament. the lances are out and directed, and the prize is great, but so is the danger. a reckless fish, eager to prove himself in the eyes of his peers, may impale himself upon a protruding bone, his heroics amounting to tragedy.
such is the way with youthful fish who devour each other needlessly. the elder fish, grown wise and patient, hunt only seldom, getting fat mostly through carefully masticating all those fallen showoffs.