They may be explained, rationally, as giant turtles, giant squid, or the large sunfish or oarfish that bask on the surface of the water. |
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My friend told me that my spotted sunfish looks stressed because it seems to be gilling more rapidly than usual. |
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Finally, green sunfish, carp, rock bass, and bullheads are all undesirable. |
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When predators are present, small sunfish forgo achieving high growth rates and reside in safer, vegetated habitats. |
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South-western zephyr, far from oceans here, whispers lazily of warm Gulf Stream sunfish. |
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Human beings are simply more aware of it than is the average prairie dog or pumpkinseed sunfish. |
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They're Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish, gentle creatures named for their habit of lying at the ocean surface, appearing to sunbathe. |
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Found in all tropical and temperate oceans, the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish, eats mainly jellyfish. |
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Consideration has been given to gars as a possible aid in controlling overpopulation of sunfish and yellow perch as well. |
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Stock ponds and reservoirs with mosquito-eating fish such as green sunfish, bluegills, guppies or any surface-feeding minnow. |
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These waters can also be good for spotting sunfish, basking sharks and whales. |
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A low dam on the river creates a small lake that provides decent fishing for bass and sunfish. |
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Bluehead chub, creek chub, and redbreast sunfish movement distributions were significantly leptokurtic. |
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With complimentary snorkelling gear, windsurfers, sunfish sailing boats and ocean kayaks, there will be hours of fun in the sun. |
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Other options such as white bass, crappie and channel catfish are available, but the ubiquitous sunfish is the most widespread and plentiful. |
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The 1.2m gallon aquarium counts among its specimens a 440-pound, six-foot sunfish, one of the largest boned fish in the world. |
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Sea lions, some sharks, and humans are the main enemies of the ocean sunfish. |
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Just slowing down is not always the best thing they can do for the fellows in the kayaks or the sunfish or the tender old draggers. |
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Low-speed turning by sunfish involves the generation of paired counterrotating vortices by the strong-side pectoral fin. |
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Panfish comprise the black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, pumpkinseed, rock bass, white crappie, and yellow perch. |
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In the pumpkinseed sunfish, parental care is provided exclusively by males, but some males parasitize others by sneaking fertilizations. |
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Schools of spinner dolphin and two enormous sunfish seen basking at the surface on the return journey proved the cherry on the icing. |
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Even that can be a blessing in disguise when basking sharks and sunfish follow their lunch. |
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Species used as hosts by this species are orange spotted sunfish, bitterling, white-tail shiner, spotfin shiner, and big-eye chub. |
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The twin lakes are stocked with channel catfish, blue catfish, bluegill sunfish and largemouth bass. |
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There are bowfins, longnose and Florida gars, 15 species of sunfish, seven species of catfish, largemouth bass, and Suwannee bass. |
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Ocean sunfish are most commonly observed several miles offshore, but on occasion may be seen closer inshore around oilrigs and drifting kelp paddies. |
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You will see shoaling barracuda, dentex, amberjack and sunfish here. |
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This caudal fin structure contrasts with the externally symmetrical homocercal morphology present in most teleost fishes such as bluegill sunfish. |
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The day after the bluegills spawned, Neff dangled a container with a pumpkinseed sunfish, which preys on eggs and fry, and scored the ferocity of the dads' defense. |
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They also go after sunfish, marlin, and dorado, as well as manta rays. |
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The pumpkinseed sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, was used in New Hampshire experiments and the spotted sunfish, Lepomis punctatus in the Florida experiments. |
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But had the sitters taken Zoloft and become more like bold rovers, the entire family of pumpkinseed sunfish would have been wiped out. |
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These areas provided habitat for abundant populations of native fish such as bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, and muskellunge. |
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In bluegill sunfish, the sublethal effects were loss of equilibrium, laboured respiration, lying on the bottom and quiescence. |
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In 1991, there were only two commercial fishers of food fish, species such as Lake sturgeon, sunfish, bullhead and carp. |
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Other important game fish include the northern pike, muskellunge, bass, lake trout, crappie, sunfish, and eelpout. |
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Minnows, catfish, trout, perch, sunfish, and bass are among Indiana's common freshwater fish. |
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The sunfish family of fishes includes some of the most highly coloured and attractive North American warm-water fishes. |
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The sunfish has been transported by MUMM to the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, to complete the collections. |
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Adult loons prefer fish to other food, and seem to favour perch, suckers, catfish, sunfish, smelt, and minnows. |
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Covered in sandpapery skin smeared with copious amounts of mucus, the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish, grows up to 10 feet long and can weigh over 5,000 pounds. |
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Like other sunfish, bluegill have very deep and highly compressed bodies. |
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Leatherback turtles, opah, and large numbers of ocean sunfish have been reported off Washington. |
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Three impoundments are stocked with bluegill sunfish and brown bullhead and partially drained to an appropriate depth for stork foraging during the late summer months. |
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I like all kinds of sashimi but I did have one ridiculous meal after a gig in Japan when they gave us a sunfish head, butterflied, with two eyes staring up at us. |
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An ocean sunfish, which can weigh up to 1.5 tons, has left the Atlantic for England's west coast, while grey triggerfish are moving from the Bay of Biscay to UK waters. |
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Out back of the house, oak, hemlock and cedar trees crown a path toward a 30-acre lake stocked with largemouth bass, yellow perch, pumpkinseed sunfish, and more. |
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Two sunfish were found stranded near Rimouski in 1997, and Fisheries and Oceans biologists can recall only two previous mentions of this species in the Estuary. |
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Harbor seals weigh about as much as the typical blind date, but at about two tons or so, the ocean sunfish is pretty hard to avoid. |
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Giant ocean sunfish have been spotted in UK waters during an aerial survey of marine life. |
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We used temperature and depth-sensing acoustic transmitters to track the movements of four ocean sunfish near Catalina Island, California. |
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They can now be distinguished from those in the greater basin by a dominance of bass and sunfish, species that are typical of very productive water. |
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In addition to the opportunity to drop a line into ponds filled with bass, catfish and sunfish there will be free hot dogs, soda and ice cream for fishermen young and old. |
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We will use the mussel Utterbackia imbecillis, which parasitizes the common bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus. |
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I've seen cobia wads on turtles, ocean sunfish, whale sharks, but mostly on rays. |
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Or looking into the Outer Bay exhibit where sunfish, sharks, tunas, barracudas, sea turtles and dolphinfish swim. |
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A pumpkinseed sunfish guarded a nest she had carved in the river bed. |
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Because of bioaccumulation effects of many contaminants, species such as perch, sunfish, and crappie tend to have much lower contaminants than larger predator fish such as walleye and pike. |
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The huge ocean sunfish, a true resident of the ocean epipelagic zone, sometimes drifts with the current, eating jellyfish. |
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Still, he said the presence of bluegill sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, black crappie, largemouth bass, golden shiner, catfish and other species in the Meer and lakes in the park was a positive sign. |
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The habitat that has been lost was excellent spawning, nursery and feeding grounds for warm to cool water fish species such as pike, small mouth bass, sunfish, perch and brown bullhead. |
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The Ottawa River and the inlet to the open aqueduct represent limited potential spawning habitat for smallmouth bass, rock bass, sunfish, pumpkinseed and a small number of minnow species. |
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In lakes in southern climates such as Florida, fish such as sunfish will take bread bait. |
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Ocean sunfish are considered to be the heaviest known bony fish in the world. |
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During a site visit on August 21st 2002, the inlet was confirmed as representing limited potential spawning habitat for species of bass, sunfish, pumpkinseed and some species of minnow. |
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Pyrosomes are in turn consumed by a variety of predators, from ocean sunfish to turtles, tunas, and the juveniles of lots of fish species. |
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Only a few species are true residents, such as tuna, billfish, flying fish, sauries, pilotfish and remoras, dolphin, ocean sharks and ocean sunfish. |
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Others are solitary, like the large ocean sunfish weighing over 500 kilograms, which sometimes drift passively with ocean currents, eating jellyfish. |
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In North America the most popular fresh water sport species include bass, pike, walleye, muskellunge, yellow perch, trout, salmon, crappie, bluegill and sunfish. |
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In the past several years, there has been seven major fish kills with one that resulted in 80 percent of native redbreast sunfish and smallmouth bass destroyed. |
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