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• n  the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae
• n  among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
• n  small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

• Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish).
• One youngster brought a tiddler (British for sunfish) in a jar.
• He rustled the 1,090 fish (sunfish, bass, walleyed pike, crappies) from the state conservation department.

• ocean sunfish
• mola
• headfish
• centrarchid

News & Articles

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• Woman pulled from Provincetown Harbor after vessel overturns
  A woman was rescued on Tuesday afternoon after her small Sunfish-type vessel overturned in Provincetown Harbor.
  June 18, 2013 - Provincetown Banner
• Newton Lake gets an algae cleanup from Camden County
  Jim Brown has caught bass, sunfish, and three kinds of catfish in Newton Lake, a man-made lake and favorite fishing spot that winds through Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Oaklyn.
  June 17, 2013 - Philly.com
• Family's hooked on Stony Point's Father's Day fishing contest
  By 10 a.m., Ryan Schmidt had reeled in - and released - six sunfish and one small-mouth bass.
  June 16, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Thomas Kean in Madison Eagle
  From saving Sunfish Pond, to the Green Acres program, to wetlands protection, to the creation of the DEP -- she worked with me on many of those bills,Kean recalled.