{"id":250654,"date":"2021-05-14T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/diver-spots-fish-wearing-a-gold-wedding-ring-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:29:57","slug":"diver-spots-fish-wearing-a-gold-wedding-ring-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/diver-spots-fish-wearing-a-gold-wedding-ring-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"#Diver spots fish wearing a gold wedding ring in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Diver spots fish wearing a gold wedding ring in Australia<\/strong>”
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One man\u2019s treasure is a fish\u2019s trash.<\/p>\n

A common mullet fish was spotted in the southern Pacific Ocean looking like a thousand bucks \u2014 by reasonable estimates.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, travel<\/a> writer and avid snorkeler Susan Prior, who lives on Australia\u2019s Norfolk Island, shared images of a silvery mullet fish, no more than a few inches long, with a gold wedding band wrapp<\/a>ed around its head. <\/p>\n

Prior is used to seeing these tiny fish sporting similar collars, usually made of plastic, which likely come from discarded \u201cplastic juice and milk bottles,\u201d she said, which so often end up in the ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes these rings escape into the wild, and this is the sad consequence,\u201d Prior said in a May 11 blog post on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But one mullet recently caught her eye for its particularly flashy new accessory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one looked a shiny metallic gold, with a lot less algal growth compared to the plastic ones,\u201d she wrote, referring to past mullets she\u2019s seen with a similar look.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s certainly not uncommon for swimmers to lose their rings in the water, Prior also remembered that someone from Norfolk Island had in fact lost their gold band recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recalled that someone had posted on our local community social media<\/a> pages about a large man\u2019s wedding ring that had gone missing in the bay earlier this year, so I decided to see if I could find the possible owner,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt didn\u2019t take long for my suspicion to be confirmed; we now have a poor mullet weighed down with someone\u2019s (expensive) gold wedding ring.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, she was unable to return the ring since she couldn\u2019t catch up to the fish. According to Prior, who takes daily swims in the ocean, mullets are uniquely susceptible to picking up rings.<\/p>\n

\u201cMullet snuffle through the sand looking for food, making it so easy for a ring or hair tie to flip over their noses and get stuck,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The amateur underwater photographer also pointed out that, valuable or not, these fish are being hampered by the added weight and algal growth, and at risk of being \u201cslowly strangled,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe mullet has a life to live and it\u2019s only fair he gets to live it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also reminded her readers that, if we can\u2019t keep trash from settling on the seabed, we can at the very least take steps to prevent harm to marine life. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such a quick job to [pry] the collar off the bottle and snip it before putting it in your waste,\u201d she wrote.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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