The mysterious incident came as the southern United States was hit with a second unexplained mass bird death within a week.
People at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, on the north-east of the peninsula, were stunned when children came out of the sea with armfuls of the fish and within minutes the shore was littered with them.
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Charlotte Pearsall, whose family have lived at Little Bay for the last 30 years, said she had never seen anything like it.
'It was so surreal,' she said. 'It's such an incredible waste - it could've fed the whole northern tip of the Coromandel.'
People with binoculars said the snapper stretched as far as they could see and boaties reported 'a carpet of floating fish further out to sea all along the coast'."
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