Sunfish

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After the aquarium shut for renovation in December, the sunfish stopped eating jellyfish and started rubbing its body against the tank, the Mainichi Shimbun reported on Monday.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

McNeish, who has examined the fish carcasses since late August, has identified non-native species including bass, sunfish, bullhead catfish and mosquitofish.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

But someone since then dumped in a bucket of wide-mouth bass, which eat native sunfish eggs, Lucero said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

Orcas also seem to enjoy penguin breast meat and sunfish intestines, Meyer says.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2023

One pond that had been treated with DDT to remove unwanted shiners remained so poisonous through repeated drainings and flushings that it killed 94 per cent of the sunfish with which it was later stocked.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson