{"id":8096,"date":"2010-11-16T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2010-11-16T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T20:21:11","slug":"giant-ocean-sunfish-discovered-on-lieutenant-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=8096","title":{"rendered":"Giant Ocean Sunfish Discovered on Lieutenant Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-001-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8098\" title=\"ltisleosf 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"ltisleosf 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-001-480-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Ocean Sunfish on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A 7-foot diameter ocean sunfish (Mola mola) stranded on Lieutenant Island&#8217;s north shore.\u00c2\u00a0 The relatively fresh specimen was discovered\u00c2\u00a0by Lydia Adler Okrent as she walked the island beach.\u00c2\u00a0 Lydia sent photos of the animal electronically to her mother and island resident, Becky Okrent, now in Manhattan.\u00c2\u00a0 Becky in turn notified Turtle Journal that the animal had stranded, so that we could document the incident and derive scientific data from this unfortunate creature.\u00c2\u00a0 The stranding death of ocean sunfish along Cape Cod Bay beaches is an annual phenomenon that remains a mystery to researchers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8103\" title=\"ltisleosf 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"ltisleosf 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ltisleosf-002-480-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) in Lieutenant Island Salt Marsh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This morning Sue Wieber Nourse of Turtle Journal visited Lieutenant Island to document the ocean sunfish.\u00c2\u00a0 This specimen measured 6 foot 2 inches from snout to the trailing edge of its caudal fin and 7 foot 7 inches from the tip of its dorsal fin to the tip of its ventral fin.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on examinations of many stranded sunfish over the last two years, we believe that these individuals\u00c2\u00a0that succumb to Cape Cod tides each fall appear to be relatively young, perhaps juveniles.\u00c2\u00a0 A necropsy of this specimen will be conducted to determine its gender and to gather more information on potential causes of death for these magnificent ocean creatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Should you find an ocean sunfish or any other interesting fauna on the beaches of Cape Cod and New England, please call our Turtle Journal hotline at 508-274-5108 or email us at <a href=\"mailto:theturtleguy@comcast.net\" target=\"_blank\">theturtleguy@comcast.net<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">ADDENDUM<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Early Tuesday afternoon &#8220;Krill&#8221; Carson conducted a necropsy of this animal and determined that it was a young female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean Sunfish on Lieutenant Island A 7-foot diameter ocean sunfish (Mola mola) stranded on Lieutenant Island&#8217;s north shore.\u00c2\u00a0 The relatively fresh specimen was discovered\u00c2\u00a0by Lydia Adler Okrent as she walked the island beach.\u00c2\u00a0 Lydia sent photos of the animal electronically to her mother and island resident, Becky Okrent, now in Manhattan.\u00c2\u00a0 Becky in turn notified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[824],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}