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The heaviest bony fish in the world: a 2744 kg giant sunfish Mola alexandrini (Ranzani, 1839)

Updated: Oct 20, 2022

We came across the heaviest fish in the world during our works with stranded large animals in the Azores. Have a look at this magestic 3,60m tall and 6000 pounds fish.


Gomes-Pereira, J. N., Pham, C. K., Miodonski, J., Santos, M. A., Dionísio, G., Catarino, D., ... & Afonso, P. The heaviest bony fish in the world: a 2744 kg giant sunfish Mola alexandrini (Ranzani, 1839) from the North Atlantic. Journal of fish biology.


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5 Comments


Tobyswarrior
Tobyswarrior
Oct 30, 2022

Well I do see fishermen catching this large wonderful creature just for sport ; dont we have a lot of great things in the Ocean being destroyed by man Buy do people kill just for the sport and who can get the largest fish or animal . PS you have a very unrespectable mouth

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emilylizquin1s
Nov 08, 2023
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hey if you bothered to read the paper they published it was FOUND washed ashore not fished/ hunted for sport, it was found by a foundation that primarily works to help beached sea life back into the ocean but this one was already dead. I understand outrage for actual events but you should bother to read a single paragraph of a paper linked in the article before going off - a real naturalist

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Tobyswarrior
Tobyswarrior
Oct 24, 2022

Why do fishermen killed these fish ? I dont think they are eatable and they are just a slow gentle fish ! It breaks my heart

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philcurrie
Oct 29, 2022
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Did you even look into this at all? The fish was found dead, on the shore. Stop spreading your bullshit ideas around without using your brain to find more information first.

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