Giant fish weighing tons washed up on an Italian holiday beach in Venice. Fire brigade arrived at the Lido in front of Venice because of a sunfish that had washed up.
The largest sunfish ever recorded, discovered off the Azores, weighed a staggering 2.7 tonnes. At around a thousand kilograms, this is almost lightweight in comparison. Sunfish occasionally get lost in the North and Baltic Seas There are three different species of sunfish: the sunfish (Mola mola), the giant sunfish and the slightly smaller sunfish sunfish.