Mark,
On the weekend I was talking to a family friend who does a lot of beach fishing. He said that in the last ten years he has found a few dead numbfish washed up on the beach.
There is a large estuary near Taree (northern NSW) that opens to the sea. He said that once he found a numbfish that had just washed in and was very fat so he cut it open. Inside was a small penguin that had not been digested! He said that he found another numbfish with a penguin in it a few years later as well! I have read the e-mails concerning the 'rat in the numbfish' so I thought this may be of some interest to you.
Regards,
Sean.
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