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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0023_01CD78A5.B04FA900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Earlier this afternoon, while about to land our kayaks, we noticed = some commotion involving a fish in the air at the beach near Horseshoe = Island. Initially I'd assumed that someone hooked a mackerel, which was = putting up a fierce fight. But, on closer reflection, it became obvious = that the fish was a disoriented flying fish, and neither hook nor line = were involved. The flying fish, maybe 40 cm in length and uniformly silvery in = coloration, was in very shallow water, very close to the margin of a = beach. Several people were trying to catch it. It was making evasive = manoeuvres, and at one time it actually flew into a small boy.=20 I managed to catch the fish, examined it, and released it in = thigh-high water. There were no visible injuries. After a minute or so = it swam off into deeper water. Sadly, there are no photos. What species = was it? What was it doing so close to the head of The Arm in very = shallow water? Are flying fish common at our latitude? Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_0023_01CD78A5.B04FA900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Earlier this afternoon, = while about to land=20 our kayaks, we noticed some commotion involving a fish in the air at the = beach=20 near Horseshoe Island. Initially I'd assumed that someone hooked a=20 mackerel, which was putting up a fierce fight. But, on closer = reflection, it=20 became obvious that the fish was a disoriented flying fish, and neither = hook nor=20 line were involved.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> The flying fish, maybe 40 cm in length = and=20 uniformly silvery in coloration, was in very shallow water, = very close to=20 the margin of </FONT><FONT size=3D4>a beach. Several people were trying = to catch=20 it. It was making evasive manoeuvres, and at one time it actually flew = into a=20 small boy. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> I managed to catch the fish, examined = it, and=20 released it in thigh-high water. There were no visible injuries. After a = minute=20 or so it swam off into deeper water. Sadly, there are no photos. What = species=20 was it? What was it doing so close to the head of The Arm in very = shallow water?=20 Are flying fish common at our latitude?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Dusan Soudek</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0023_01CD78A5.B04FA900--
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