Of three positions regarding the pre-Fall consumption of lower aquatic creatures, one is seldom taken (and rightfully so): that these creatures are actually plants. A second position is that these small creatures indeed experienced pre-Fall death, but that lacking nephesh life, this death was and is as benign as vegetative death. Thus, there is an implied creative category between "vegetation" and "creature." A third view is posited here: that these primary and secondary creatures indeed possess nephesh life, yet their original provisionary nature for other creatures’ consumption is physiologically evident and biblically allowable. This third view of pre-Fall mortality can be adopted without supporting the evolutionary idea of death as a creative mechanism.