{"id":117204,"date":"2025-10-12T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:38:09","slug":"rare-ocean-sunfish-found-washed-up-on-west-donegal-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117204\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Ocean Sunfish found washed up on West Donegal beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A rare Ocean Sunfish has been found washed up off the coast of West Donegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The huge fish was discovered by friends out walking yesterday morning at the Back Strand in Falcarragh.<\/p>\n<p>The fish, which has a disc shape, was dead.<\/p>\n<p>It was found by friends Mary Doherty (pictured) and Adele Paton.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Sunfish, which can weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545 and 2,205lbs) when fully grown, are native to tropical and temperate waters around the world.  <\/p>\n<p>However, because of an increase in ocean temperatures, they are now found occasionally in Irish waters.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known how this particular sunfish died although they often become caught up in gillnets.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the largest boniest fish in the sea and gets its name as it sunbathes on the surface of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Rare Ocean Sunfish found washed up on West Donegal beach was last modified:  October 12th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare Ocean Sunfish has been found washed up off the coast of West Donegal. The huge fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,6368,18,71891,13,14,4352,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,71892,68393,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-117204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donegal","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-falcarragh-beach","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-found","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-ocean-sunfish","25":"tag-rare","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}