"Study Says Natural Factors, Not Humans, Behind West Coast Warming"

"SEATTLE — When scientists on a boat in the Gulf of Alaska pulled their net in August, they saw something stunning: a live ocean sunfish.

Mostly found in the tropics or temperate waters, these giant 6-foot-long snub-bodied creatures are incredibly rare in Alaska. And that was just the start.

Four days later, one of the same researchers saw a warm-water blue shark circling near another sunfish. Days after that, the boat hauled up yet another living sunfish."

Craig Welch reports for the Seattle Times November 4, 2014.

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"Unusual Warm Ocean Conditions Off West Coast Bringing Odd Species" (San Jose Mercury News)