Phish: The latest PETA target.

The animal-rights group is calling for Phish to change their name to Sea Kittens, according to a letter sent from PETA to the band, “because few people are aware that fish are actually smart animals with personalities.”

From the PETA blog:

“After all, sea kittens are phriends, not phood—they are intelligent beings who have unique personalities, and they feel pain, just as puppies do. People would be outraged if billons of Phidos were dragged out of their homes in massive nets and left to suffocate to death.

I’m crossing my fingers that Phish will agree. Check out these lyrics from the band’s live track, “A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing”:

(Run away, run away, run away, run)
A song I heard the ocean sing
(Run away, run away, run away, run)
Shining light in darkness deep

Swap “run away” with “swim away” and it appears that Phish is warning sea kittens to escape the fishing trawlers, doesn’t it?”

What next? Will Hot Tuna become Hot Chicken of the Sea?