diff --git a/src/tokenizer.cpp b/src/tokenizer.cpp
index 037c4bbd8..1320c9698 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.cpp
+++ b/src/tokenizer.cpp
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ const wchar_t *tokenizer_get_error_message(tokenizer_error_t err) {
             return _(L"Invalid input/output redirection");
         case tokenizer_error_t::invalid_pipe:
             return _(L"Cannot use stdin (fd 0) as pipe output");
+        case tokenizer_error_t::invalid_pipe_ampersand:
+            return _(L"|& is not valid. In fish, use &| to pipe both stdout and stderr.");
         case tokenizer_error_t::closing_unopened_subshell:
             return _(L"Unexpected ')' for unopened parenthesis");
         case tokenizer_error_t::illegal_slice:
@@ -570,6 +572,10 @@ maybe_t<tok_t> tokenizer_t::next() {
                 result->offset = start_pos;
                 result->length = 2;
                 this->buff += 2;
+            } else if (this->buff[1] == L'&') {
+                // |& is a bashism; in fish it's &|.
+                return this->call_error(tokenizer_error_t::invalid_pipe_ampersand, this->buff,
+                                        this->buff);
             } else {
                 auto pipe = pipe_or_redir_t::from_string(buff);
                 assert(pipe.has_value() && pipe->is_pipe &&
diff --git a/src/tokenizer.h b/src/tokenizer.h
index a24a26d38..571d20c01 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.h
+++ b/src/tokenizer.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ enum class tokenizer_error_t {
     unterminated_escape,
     invalid_redirect,
     invalid_pipe,
+    invalid_pipe_ampersand,
     closing_unopened_subshell,
     illegal_slice,
     closing_unopened_brace,
diff --git a/tests/checks/redirect.fish b/tests/checks/redirect.fish
index d7768c70a..61c9eb004 100644
--- a/tests/checks/redirect.fish
+++ b/tests/checks/redirect.fish
@@ -24,4 +24,9 @@ cat $tmpdir/file.txt
 echo noclobber &>>? $tmpdir/file.txt
 #CHECKERR: {{.*}} The file {{.*}} already exists
 
+eval "echo foo |& false"
+#CHECKERR: {{.*}} |& is not valid. In fish, use &| to pipe both stdout and stderr.
+#CHECKERR: echo foo |& false
+#CHECKERR:          ^
+
 rm -Rf $tmpdir