We received a tip that there was a huge school of mullet in the Tsutogawa River near Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station, so we went to check it out〜🚲
(This tip came from suzupico. Thank you!)
I don’t know much about fish at all.
Wait, what does a mullet look like? Would I even recognize one…? 🤔 With that in mind, I headed over, and…
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Huh!?!??!
That shadow is…
Whoa〜〜〜〜!
There are so many!!!!!
Zooming in even more…
A massive school!!!
There were scenes like this in Nemo and Ponyo, weren’t there? 😅
The spot is next to the Hyogo Performing Arts Center, on the north side of Yamate Kansen.
People waiting at the traffic light were peering down to look too〜!
It wasn’t as packed as the north side, but they were also on the south side of Yamate Kansen!
↓Enjoy the video〜😊
A great cormorant having a meal, completely ignoring the huge school of mullet.
This is where they were swimming upstream like a waterfall climb. Though it’s not really a waterfall 😅
On the map, it’s around here↓
It’s around where the Tsutogawa River and Yamate Kansen intersect.
What kind of fish is a mullet?
※ Screenshot from What kind of fish is a mullet?｜TSURI HACK
Apparently, mullet are fish whose names change as they grow.
In Kansai, their name reportedly changes from “haku → oboko → subashiri → ina → bora → todo.”
I wonder which stage the ones in this river are at?
Apparently, large numbers of mullet have been appearing in various places all over Japan recently 😰
Here’s a news clip from when they appeared in a river in Kobe↓
According to Suma Aquarium,
“The recent changes in weather caused the mullet to flock to canals near the river mouth in search of a better habitat.”
Finally
The area of the Tsutogawa River where the huge school of mullet was seen isn’t near the river mouth, and it’s right in the middle of the city, but maybe it’s an easy place for fish to live!
suzupico, thank you for the tip!!
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