Citations:ichthyophobia

Noun: "the fear of fish"

 * 1898, Current Literature, Volume 23, page 521:
 * Ichthyophobia, defined as the fear of fish, is especially strong in the Navajo Indians, who will not eat fish nor have anything to do with articles made in the shape of fish.
 * 1994, Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present, University of Wisconsin Press (1994), ISBN 9780299142506, page 253:
 * Such ichthyophobia occurred at the time of first European contact among the Tasmanian Aborigines.
 * 2009, Chris Hollywood, The Random Tangent Anthology, page 55:
 * He had tried to keep his ichthyophobia, or extreme fear of fish, a secret from the world, but somehow it seemed like everyone knew about it.
 * 2011, Miranda Darling, The Siren's Sting, Allen & Unwin (2011), ISBN 9781741759204, unnumbered page:
 * 'How dreadful. I could never go under the water. The fish frighten me.'
 * 'My wife has ichthyophobia, you see,' Al-Nassar chimed in. 'The unfortunate condition confines her to swimming pools.'