{"id":301619,"date":"2025-12-06T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301619\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:59:07","slug":"red-listed-sunfish-found-dead-on-holme-next-the-sea-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301619\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-listed sunfish found dead on Holme-next-the-Sea beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The sunfish (mola mola) was discovered on the sand at Holme-next-the-Sea by a local walker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fish &#8211; the second largest bony fish in the world &#8211; is found around the globe but in UK waters is more common off the south west coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sunfish can reach 1,000kg \u2013 the weight of a small car \u2013 and more than three metres in length.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Those that reach the UK tend to be much smaller, but they are still round and remarkably narrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature&#8217;s (IUCN) Red List, because it is often a bycatch of the fishing industry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Emma Cockburn, who found the fish, said: &#8220;It looks like it may have been hit by a boat. It\u2019s come a heck of a long way.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/national\/24374820.aquatic-animals-farmed-fished-2022-world-first---un\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More aquatic animals farmed than fished in 2022 in world first \u2013 UN | Eastern Daily Press<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Cockburn also found a dead porpoise on the beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Both discoveries were reported to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sunfish (mola mola) was discovered on the sand at Holme-next-the-Sea by a local walker. The fish &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-301619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}