When you take into account the decree of God stating that mans years would only be 120 years in Genesis 6, and when you do the math of the numbers there it took 1000 years for this decree to come in force...
God used the environment to effect us, and as is observable environment does effect us in way of our health and not only ours but our offspring.
And for the fish I will give you the genetically superior..
My question to you is where than would all the salt come from to make the water to salty?
With the amount of water that would be upon the earth in that time I am sure the amount of salt would be pretty well on scale.
And I think that going from 2 or 7 of each species to make all the species on earth now is a far lesser cry than all of this coming from a single ameoba in the primordial soup...