A massive ocean sunfish, estimated to weigh more than 900 pounds, was found stranded on a Cape Cod beach earlier this week, a tragic sight that’s unfortunately all too familiar this time of year as the vulnerable species migrates toward warmer southern waters.
The adult female ocean sunfish washed ashore at the mouth of the Herring River in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod’s inner shore along Cape Cod Bay.
The massive sunfish, one of the ocean’s gentle giants, known to bask at the surface and dive into deep waters, was found dead on the beach by someone walking along the shoreline.
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