Are there any fish in the Dead Sea?

The waters of the Dead Sea are about five times saltier than the waters of the ocean. If you evaporated four pails of this salty salt water, you would have one pail of solid chemicals. Most of this material is common salt, but the water also is rich in other chemicals. It has been estimated that the waters of the Dead Sea contain about 850 million tons of bromine.

No animal can live in water saturated with such a large quota of chemicals and the Dead Sea, as its name suggests, is a lifeless stretch of water. A few fish, carried into the stagnant sea by the river Jordan, soon perish. Sea birds from the nearby Mediterranean hover overhead, watch for the floating bodies of these unlucky fish and swoop down to devour them.