{"id":840798,"date":"2026-08-03T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:16:10","slug":"sunfish-washes-up-on-abersoch-beach-after-hot-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840798\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunfish washes up on Abersoch beach after hot weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ocean sunfish are found across tropical and temperate waters and they have been recorded swimming across the length of the Atlantic near countries ranging from Iceland to Chile, according to the Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mat Westfield, Wales strandings co-ordinator at Marine Environmental Monitoring (MEM), said the incident was reported but it was unfortunately too late to analyse why it had washed ashore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to collect it when its still fresh because, once it starts decomposing, all the information is lost,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westfield said they have seen incidents like this rise around Welsh and Cornish waters this summer as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2ky7g4wgj4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heatwaves <\/a>that have blighted the UK in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We seem to be getting a lot of sightings of sunfish by the various tour operators and fishing vessels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite this, he stressed it was most common to see ocean sunfish in the summer months, as they hunt food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westfield said he had also seen more reports of jellyfish sightings in recent months, which the sunfish primarily feeds on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocean sunfish are found across tropical and temperate waters and they have been recorded swimming across the length&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-840798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}