The world's heaviest fish caught
This is a giant sunfish that can be found all over the globe, but their exact number is unknown.
A huge fish weighing three tons was caught in the Azores. It is the heaviest bony fish ever recorded.
The fish was found dead on the surface of the ocean.
The scaly hippo, known as the giant sunfish or cone-headed sunfish (Mola alexandrini), was discovered on December 9, 2021, while swimming lifelessly off the coast of Faial Island in the Azores, a Portuguese group of islands in the north Atlantic Ocean. .
According to a statement from the Atlantic Naturalist Association, a non-profit conservation and research organization based on Faial Island, local authorities picked up the hefty carcass and took it back to the port so it could be properly examined.
The fish was about 3.6 m high and about 3.5 m long, and its weight was 2744 kg.
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