As someone who would probably understand an explanation in real words, my eyes glazed over and I stopped parsing after about the third mention of fish. But I'm

As someone who would probably understand an explanation in real words, my eyes glazed over and I stopped parsing after about the third mention of fish. But I'm not the target audience. In popular science articles, I much prefer paragraphs laid out with a sentence of technical description followed by a layperson's explanation and/or example. That way, if I understand the first sentence, I can skip to the next paragraph. It's been a while, but I recall this being a popular format for textbooks as well.