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A dead slender sunfish
Thursday 7 June 2012

Sunfish deaths explained

Our scientists have ruled out disease as the cause of large fish kills on the South Coast of Western Australia last month.

Pathology tests on samples, gathered by Albany-based Fisheries and Marine officers in late May, have not detected anything to suggest the stranding of hundreds of slender sunfish along numerous beaches was anything else than a natural phenomenon.

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