It doesn’t look like something you associate with the Danish fauna, but Klumpfisken holder from time to time in Danish waters.

Thus, over the last few days have been indrappoteret two sunfish to Øresundsakvariet, as in just a single day went out two times. The fish is fairly exotic and something distinctive vision, according to marine biologist Anders Kofoed.

– It is a rare and amazing fish, which can get up to weigh several tons. It is like seeing a Mercedes, which has been run over by a steamroller, he says to Ekstra Bladet.

one deployment resulted in the discovery of a sunfish, which, unfortunately, had already found his end on a beach in Rørvig.

But the other sunfish, there was at low water in Jægerspris, was still alive. It was driven to the Øresundsakvariet, where it was tried is saved. However, it died unfortunately in the course of Thursday 6. december.

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Before it went away, reached the akvariechef by Øresundsakvariet, Jens Peder Jeppesen, however, to get a closer acquaintance to the fish.

– I was down and snorkel in the tank, where my daughter was filming and also fed it. Who ate a little bit, so I wondered also, when I got to know that it was dead the next day, he says to Ekstra Bladet.

Facts about the Sunfish

– Klumpfisken looks like no other fish. The body is oval, compressed ”kødklump”.

– Although klumpfisken seems to be uncommon clumsily built, it can under optimal, warm conditions swim right so strong and actually jump up to a metre out of the water.

– Klumpfisken is known as the greatest of all benfisk and can be approx. 4 metres long and weigh over 2500 kg.

– The largest known Danish copy measured 218 cm and weighed 566 kg

– Klumpfiskens normal habitat is the open ocean, where it feeds on planktondyr: Vingesnegle, cephalopods, crustaceans and although it may be a meager diet – large amounts of jellyfish.

– She-klumpfisken produce many eggs, in fact, more than any other fish on earth. In a famous case called the she of 1.5 meters over 300 million eggs.

Source: Øresundsakvariet

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Klumpfisken, which most of all looks like something from outer space, has difficulty in the Danish waters. It explains Anders Kofoed.

– It is because Jutland is and bristle out. It is actually natural for the fish to get at these latitudes, but if they come on the east side of the Jutland peninsula, can they not pull against the warmer water again. When the cold comes, they end up in a dead end, because they swim to the south, when they should swim to the north and round the tip of Jutland.

Since the fish can’t control its own body temperature becomes colder as the water. This means that it moves less and less, until it lies still and dies, explains havbiologen.

Østersundskakvariet is very interested in all of sunfish, both the living and the dead. Therefore, you are more than welcome to call at 2875 1970 or 2875 1958, then they will come and retrieve the animal.

– If klumpfisken is live, we will almost do anything to save it. We are moving out on the night, says akvariechefen.

If successful the aquarium to get a live fish home, it will be placed in an aquarium with gradually hotter water, where it will eventually live up more.

If all goes well, the fish will be put out in the sea again next year, when it can survive in the Danish waters.

In 2014, there was reported a total of 80 dead sunfish over the winter. Jens Peder Jeppesen believes that the season of the year might be just as bad.

in the course of this week have already found six to eight dead fish. I think there will be found many in the year, he says.

If you want to see a sunfish, you can visit Øresundsakvariet of the winter holidays, where they will dissect Baymavi the fish and tell about the nature.