Rare Fish Never Seen in Northern Hemisphere Washes Up in Santa Barbara California

"This is why it's so intriguing why it has turned up in California," she said. "We know it has the temperate distribution around here and off the coast of Chile, but then how did it cross the equator and turn up by you guys? It's intriguing what made this fish cross the equator.

Holy shit!

Anyone?

Pole reversal.

I have fished Southern California for over 50 years.
Sunfish have been here the whole time. This title is BS.They get very large, as in over 500 pounds.
BTW, I am not blaming the OP.

It's all good, never seen or heard of them before.

I was thinking something similar. With the North Pole drift in high gear, there's bound to be effects in the animal kingdom. But also keep in mind the oceans are vast &we honestly dont know all that much about what lurks beneath the surface.

It's also not impossible for this fish to have been caught up in a ship's ballast tank as a fry in its native waters only to be dumped weeks or months later in another part of the globe & remained there.
(Insert random Finding Nemo meme here)
Zebra mussels from Russia/Ukraine have become a serious problem here in Texas lakes and rivers to the point of damaging municipal water supply lines. First spotted in the U.S. in the mid 1980's... it was, in a way, an invasion of Soviet mollusks we're fighting to this day.

hoodwinker sunfish

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Sunfish, yes, this particular sunfish, no.

swimming away from the Fukushima radiation plume in the ocean

Yep

Mola Mola (ocean sunfish) can get up to over a ton

Freakin' goog link - here's a real one

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You obviously did not read the article...

The ocean is big. There’s a lot more of it we haven’t seen than we have.

Probably choked on all the oil in the water in SB.

Sunfish.

I don't know if its the sign of an impending earthquake, but it can most assuredly be linked to fukashima!

I've seen Sunfish too, very large ones, off Dana Point. I think this particular Sunfish is very rare. But they just basically swim in the currents, so I don't see how they would stay in one area very long.

Very strange looking fish, makes You wonder, what else is in the Ocean's Depth ... TY OP...

It’s here or showing up due to the oceans heating up.

Absolutely nothing to do with earthquakes.
Just ocean temps. The flow and follow ocean currents.
Not electrical anomalies or some vibrations.

Your all so ducking stupid. For fucks sake.

Fishing trawlers, working illegally far from home, come back and dump 12 miles or is it 6 off-shore. That is how it washed up?

Just a thought.

I really don't like that my sis lives in LA

Fukushima radiation poisoning...toxicity level now fatal in "mammals"