Article 5QW9X Huge sunfish weighing up to 200kg found off coast of Ceuta – video

Huge sunfish weighing up to 200kg found off coast of Ceuta – video

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A gigantic sunfish found tangled in tuna fishing nets in the Mediterranean could weigh up to 200kg, 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 100kg scale. Enrique Ostale, a marine biologist, said he had heard of sunfish this size only in books

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