Tropical Sunfish Caught By Faroe Island Fishermen North Of Scotland

[hatrack]

THE heaviest-boned fish in the world - normally seen in the tropics - has found its way to an Oxford market after being caught in the north Atlantic. The flat, oval ocean sunfish, or mola mola, was netted by fishermen near the Faroe Islands before being sent south.

Normally the species, which boasts two huge triangular fins and a beak-like mouth, plies the waters around the southern Atlantic and south-west Pacific, often lying flat on the water as though basking in the sun.

But according to Geraint Jones, manager of Hayman's Fisheries in Oxford's famous Covered Market, its appearance in colder waters is a sign of global warming as it travels further in pursuit of jellyfish and molluscs.

He said: "You do see them around the southern coastline - they had a big shoal off the south-western tip of Cornwall a few weeks back - but to get one as far north as the Faroe Islands is very unusual. "One supplier who has been in the business for 40-odd years said he has only known of two or three to be landed before this. "It is a real indication of how the sea temperatures are warming up."

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http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1195312006

[opihimoimoi]

1. Them Pubs will be in DENIAL about this story.

[rfranklin]

5. It probably was a pet flushed down the toilet...

that's the ticket!

[opihimoimoi]

6. Too Many Signs of GW to ignore like them Pubs do...Too Many signs

What they waiting for? Sand bag dikes around Florida?

[icymist]

2. Sign of global warming indeed.

The movie Inconvenient Truth states that if the area around England and Europe warm up enough that the ice on Greenland would melt and trigger another ice age by diverting currents that, today, keep Europe warm. The world had better address this issue.

[phantom power]

3. Greenland is a done deal. We get to find out what happens.

[icymist]

4. Oh boy! That almost makes me want to move to Brazil.

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