A gigantic sunfish found tangled in tuna fishing nets in the According to experts, a giant sunfish discovered trapped in tuna fishing nets in the Mediterranean could weigh up to 2000kg.

The fish was 3.2 metres long and 2.9 metres wide, a record for Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city on Africa’s north coast.

When the sunfish was weighed, it nearly tipped over a 1000kg scale. Enrique Ostalé, a marine biologist, stated that he had only read of sunfish this huge in novels.

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