Sunfish

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Mai Kato, a staff member, told Mainichi Shimbun that the sunfish, which arrived at the aquarium a year ago, had a "curious" personality and "would swim up to visitors when they approached the tank".

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Ocean sunfish sightings tend to rise when velella observations do, Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

It’s the latest tactic in an ongoing struggle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay below the Glen Canyon Dam and to protect a threatened native fish, the humpback chub.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

A sunfish found near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean weighed as much as an S.U.V.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

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