In 1984 Nola Jacobs, the wife of the Mana Island farm manager, found a sunfish washed ashore on the eastern side of the island. It was 2.33 metres long and 1.45 metres wide. These fish have a distinctive small mouth, and feed on jellyfish and salps.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
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EP/1984/0303/13
Photograph by Ross Giblin
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