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AlisterEP
1550
It depends on the species. But yes, there are species of turtles, tortoises, and terrapins which eat fish.
It's not an F-sound, but a sort of middle between German/Scottish CH (as in Bach and Loch) and a H-sound. You can hear sound examples on the wikipedia page dedicated to the very phoneme ɧ.
Arnauti
1490
We usually use fisk as a mass noun when we speak about it as food.
We could say en fisk, but then they'd only be eating one fish, which sounds unlikely. If we said fiskar, there would be a focus on either individual fish, as if the turtles were eating them one by one somehow, or on different fishes as in different species of fish.
In the same way, we usually say de äter kyckling 'they eat chicken' where kyckling is a mass noun too.