YES!
Fish, like people, need oxygen to live. There is oxygen both in the air and the water. People breathe in the oxygen of the air through their lungs. When a man drowns, it's because he has used up his supply of oxygen and cannot get any from the water. So he dies.
Fish breathe through gills rather than lungs. Gills can extract oxygen from the water, but not from the air. When a fish is pulled out of the water, it soon exhausts its supply of oxygen, and 'drowns' because its gills can no longer function.
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