Pablo will be sleeping with the fishes.

But in this case, that is a good thing.

The fate of Pablo the tilapia had been in the hands of middle-school students at an Upper East Side public school. They cared for him as part of a class project, then debated whether to eat him in a year-end barbecue.

They have decided to spare his life. Pablo will either go to a farm or to move to a bigger tank in the school.

But the students have tabled until next year the question of whether to eat their other tilapia, which they consider too small to grill this year.