As nouns the difference between fish and upokororo
is that
fish is (countable) a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills or
fish can be (obsolete) a counter, used in various games while
upokororo is a new zealand fish, , rather like a trout.
As a verb fish
is to try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.