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January 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Chris Slack
Last updated at 9:34 PM on 11th January 2012
Anglers fishing off the coast of Margate are used to catching a range of species including the chip shop favourite cod.
But the latest animal to wash up on the beach at the Kent seaside resort is something a little more exotic.
The ocean sunfish, a tropical species usually found in much warmer waters, was found on the town’s beach last week.
Discovery: The ocean sunfish washed up on the beach at Margate, only the third time the species has been spotted in Kent in the past decade
The baby fish was discovered alive on the sand but had died by the time a team of volunteers from the British Diver’s Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) arrived.
Volunteer Jon Brooks said the report from the public had claimed a stranded porpoise was on the beach but it was actually the sunfish.
THE HEAVIEST FISH IN THE WORLD
The sunfish that washed up on Margate
beach was around 2ft in length, but the species, known as the Mola Mola,
grows to become the heaviest fish in the world.
An average adult weighs around 1,000kg and lives on a diet of jellyfish, consumed in huge quantities.
The fish, whose natural lifespan has not been determined, are vulnerable to few predators in the ocean, and among humans are considered to be a delicacy, popular in the Far East.
The sunfish’s name refers to the animal’s habit of ‘sunbathing’ ont the surface of the water.
It is just the third time an ocean sunfish has been seen in Kent in ten years.
Mr Brooks said: ‘As we specialise in marine mammals, I don’t know much about them. It is a quite interesting discovery and very different from what we normally deal with.’
Andrew Horton, director of the British Marine Life Study Society, said: ‘It is certainly an extremely rare find on the North Sea coast.
‘They are normally found deep in the open oceans such as the Pacific or the Atlantic, but they can sometimes find their way to places like Cornwall, where it is unusual but not as rare.
‘The recent awful weather and rough sea conditions could explain how it could have ended up on the beach.’
Bryony Chapman, marine life officer at the Kent Wildlife Trust, said: ‘Kent Wildlife Trust is always very keen to receive reports of unusual sightings like this.’
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Wouldn’t the chips be a bit soggy?
– Chas, Reno, USA, 11/1/2012 23:30 This fish was caught in England, here chips are what you’d wrongly call fries. So no, fish and chips go really well together, so much in fact it’s our national dish. Great with plenty of salt vinegar. Here chips are fries, fries are extremely thin chips and your type of chips are called crisps.
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ChrisM, Ashford, England, 11/1/2012 21:57…..Thanks for that. Never mind, though. Look at the positive side. A Sunfish in British waters is a much more common than a decent technical journalist in a tabloid
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Several sunfish have been sighted over the years off Cornwall (in the summer months!), I seem to remember one being caught in the 80’s that broke a record off Padstow.
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Wouldn’t the chips be a bit soggy?
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The world’s heaviest fish?! hmmmm, i did not know that. Well, there you go.
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The range of the Sunfish is from Iceland to near the Antarctic and in all Oceans it will live in Water of 12 degrees C but has problems when the water temperature drops below 10C which is probably why it died. So it is NOT a tropical species.
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