There have been some strange new visitors to the usually cold waters of New Brunswick on Canada’s east coast
They’re called Mola mola, or ocean sunfish and they are the heaviest bony fish in the world with an average adult weight of a ton (1,000kg) and from 2-3 metres long.
Although they are found in oceans around the world, they tend to be found in tropical and temperate zones. It is extremely rare to find them in the colder waters of Canada
Yet, an 11-kg mola mola was found washed up on the banks of the Miramichi River this week, It is even stranger that it was found in a fresh water river.
Laurent Robichaud, the co-ordinator with the New Brunswick Aquarium and Marine Centre in Shippagan, said,” It must have been lost or following some jellyfish and eventually ended up in the river and got diosoriented and eventually died, cause it doesn’t live in fresh water”.
It is thought that cool water disorients the warm water fish.
This latest find comes after another much large Mola of 160 kg was found in August in the waters of the Bay of Fundy just off St Andrews.
Researchers suspect the warming waters in the Bay of Fundy are enticing more, larger sea creatures further north. Water temperature in the Bay of Fundy was about 12 degrees this summer, the upper-end of its usual range.
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