{"id":98673,"date":"2017-04-17T02:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98673"},"modified":"2017-04-17T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:49:48","slug":"huge-oarfish-dies-in-shores-of-sarangani-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/17\/huge-oarfish-dies-in-shores-of-sarangani-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge oarfish dies in shores of Sarangani province"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98674\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_sarangani.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98674\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_sarangani.png\" alt=\"Fishermen recovered before dawn Monday a huge oarfish near the shores of Kiamba town in Sarangani Province, the first for the area in years. (Photo: Eugene Alvin Villar\/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_sarangani.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_sarangani-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishermen recovered before dawn Monday a huge oarfish near the shores of Kiamba town in Sarangani Province, the first for the area in years. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Eugene Alvin Villar\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GENERAL SANTOS CITY \u2013Fishermen recovered before dawn Monday a huge oarfish near the shores of Kiamba town in Sarangani Province, the first for the area in years.<\/p>\n<p>Carmelo Velasco, Kiamba municipal environment and natural resources officer, said the rare fish was spotted by fishermen swimming off Purok Kiblis in Barangay Lomuyon at around 4:30 a.m. but later died and washed ashore.<\/p>\n<p>He said the oarfish was initially seen swimming near the shore and \u201cappeared to be already at a weak state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot long after it was spotted, (the oarfish) died due to still unknown reasons,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding municipal environment personnel measured the oarfish at 13 feet and 10 inches long and about 11 inches wide.<\/p>\n<p>Velasco said the recovered oarfish, which is called the &#8220;king of herrings,\u201d was the first ever recorded in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>He said the oarfish was brought to Barangay Poblacion in Kiamba for inspection by representatives from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.<\/p>\n<p>A fishery reference website described the oarfish as \u201clarge, greatly elongated, pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae, and found in all temperate to tropical oceans yet rarely seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of oarfish washed up ashore these past months in parts of Mindanao, triggering belief that they could be related to the recent series of earthquakes, among them the 6.7-magnitude temblor that hit Surigao City and the neighboring areas in February.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Lanao del Sur, Bukidnon, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental provinces were hit by moderate to strong earthquakes since last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of oarfish, which is known in Japan as &#8220;ryugu no tsukai&#8221; or &#8220;messenger from the sea god&#8217;s palace,&#8221; were reportedly found by Japanese fishermen before the occurrence of major earthquakes in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL SANTOS CITY \u2013Fishermen recovered before dawn Monday a huge oarfish near the shores of Kiamba town in Sarangani Province, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18042,5973],"class_list":["post-98673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-oar-fish","tag-sarangani","mauthors-allen-v-estabillo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}