A rare monster ocean sunfish, known as “Mola-Mola”, has been spotted near a popular tourist harbour, off the Dorset coast near Portland Harbour in the UK. World’s largest bony fish alive, normally found in tropical waters, can weigh up to 2.3 tons and grow to be 10ft long. Shared by the Marien Conservation society on Twitter, the fish was shot by Liz Hemsley and has caused a stir on the internet.
Captioned as the largest bony fishes alive on the planet that visit the UK at the time of summers in search of food, the jellyfishes, the post has attracted huge reaction. “I love these fellas they can dive really deep for food then they like to bask in the sun near the surface layer of the ocean to warm up their body,” wrote a user. Further, another wrote that they saw one in a tank in the Natural History Museum.
While the ocean sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the world, with an average weight of 2,200lbs (998kg), and rare, one was spotted earlier by the crew of a fishing boat off the north coast of Skye, an Island in Scotland. The sighting was reported at Ardnamurchan, 50-square-mile peninsula in the ward management area of Lochaber near Highland. Although a Mola Mola would otherwise be rare in the seas of Scotland as it drifts with the ocean currents, in recent times, many such sightings have been reported by the boat operators, as per reports. The fish is found usually in the month of August at depths of up to nearly 2,000ft (610m) and diet on the jellyfishe.
