Sunfish

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Some shared photos and videos of they had taken of the sunfish on previous visits, and others promised to go and see it when the aquarium reopened.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Other winners of a slimy new epoch would be ocean sunfish, a giant bony fish whose individuals can clock in at more than 2,000 pounds and consume jellyfish — and velella — in mass quantities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 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

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