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Huge sunfish weighing up to two tonnes found off coast of Ceuta

Guardian, 19 Oct 2021
A gigantic sunfish found tangled in tuna fishing nets in the Mediterranean could weigh up to 2000kg, according to experts. The fish was measured at 3.2 metres long and 2.9 metres wide, a record find for Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa. When the sunfish was weighed it almost broke a 1000kg scale. Enrique Ostalé, a marine biologist, said he had heard of sunfish this size only in books

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