A strangely shaped fish was recently discovered drifting off the coast of Orgeon State, USA and is considered a rather rare case because it has an orange body.
The Seaside Aquarium in the town of the same name in Oregon said a local person discovered the fish with an odd shape, weighing 45kg at Sunset Beach and reported it to authorities, according to Newsweek.
After seeing the photos of the “strange fish”, aquarium staff were immediately present to retrieve the carcass of the fish. The Seaside Aquarium identified him as a rare sunfish. Almost the entire body of the fish is covered with orange scales, which is different from normal sunfish, which has a silvery body.
“The fish stirred the atmosphere at the aquarium, many people flock to see this beautiful and strange fish,” posted a Facebook post. The aquarium plans to invite groups of students to dissect the fish.
This activity will be carried out in partnership with the Columbia River Maritime Museum. The fish will be frozen until the start of the new school year.
“It is extremely rare to find a sunfish on such a beach,” Lynn Mattes, of the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife’s marine resources program, told Newsweek.
Anglers in Orgeon State occasionally catch sunfish. The last time the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Service collected a specimen from a sunfish was in 2015, Ms. Mattes added.
In 2009, a man caught a sunfish about 60 km upstream of the Columbia River. This man took the fish to a restaurant near his home in Washington, asking for it to be cooked. This person said “the moon fish is very delicious”.
