Possible Clues:

• Venomous cartilaginous fish
• Artist preserved by mean fish!
• Mean to eat half of rare fish
• Fish: it's angry when provoked
• Artist with tight clothing threatening swimmer
• Manta's cousin
• Mean to eat mainly raw fish
• Way fashionable eighteenth century elegist identifies fish
• Drift catching current finally hooking fish
• Leaden-coloured stone taken for a fish