Even in their early history, the smallest snowfish who were sighted by the public first off the eastern coast of South America had very sharp teeth for eating snow and ice. Everybody had heard of the goldfish and the silver-finned rays of Peru and Brazil; everyone believed in the pink river dolphins, and believed them to be inexhaustible, and that it was only necessary to send them notes and letters and whispers. But the world was changing and a report, industriously spread, that fish were packing up and leaving and so the snowfish with increased confidence began their move from the South Pole and the Southern Hemisphere to the North to feast on snow and ice there. And thus our story begins.