A strange visitor to Kerry’s coast

A STRANGE-LOOKING fish, caught off the south-west coast last summer, has been tracked to the Bay of Biscay.

Scientists believe warmer waters in the north Atlantic may be attracting these ocean sunfish which look like they are all head and no tail.

The sunfish netted off the Dingle peninsula by a UCC-based research team was tagged with satellite-linked equipment which recorded information that may yet unravel some of the mystery of this denizen of the deep.

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