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Kōrero: Oceanic fish

Stranded sunfish

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Stranded sunfish

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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1984/0303/13

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Oceanic fish – Moonfish, flying fish, sunfish and mid-water species, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/8768/stranded-sunfish (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.