More Tropical Fish Sighted in R.I. Water

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2006/aug/25/082509524.html

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - An unusually large number of tropical fish have been spotted this summer in Rhode Island waters by divers, fishermen and environmentalists.

Among the fish seen so far: juvenile orange filefish, snowy grouper and lookdowns. A local lobsterman pulled up a large trigger fish in one of his traps.

"We're always catching tropicals during the summer months, but I mean there are a lot more. Probably about double the amount," Jean Bambara, an aquarist at Save the Bay's Exploration Center in Newport, told The Providence Journal.

The fish being seen are normally found in the warm waters off the southern states, just like the Portuguese men-of-war that invaded southern New England waters earlier in the summer and the manatee that was spotted this week in Warwick and North Kingstown.

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[babylonsister]

1. Wild! I read manatees are heading there, too. I wonder what

RI has that these creatures need?

[phantom power]

2. Unfortunately, what RI now has is water of the correct temperature.

[m_welby]

3. they just wanted to show support since we hate bush more

than any other state.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Food and warmer waters

[skids]

5. mf**kin jellyfish in a mf**kin hurricane!

OK, how long until we hear of a little town suffering a hail of jellies?