Giant sunfish found on Dunedin beach

A sunfish has been found dead on a Dunedin beach near Aramoana.

It was discovered on Dowling Bay at Port Chalmers.

The Department of Conservation was called and a team of four people moved the giant fish off the rocks and carried it in an orange tarpaulin across the shallow waterway to shore.

The sunfish measured more than a metre long and a metre high and had scars on its tail fin.

Sunfish are often sighted a few times a year in the waters offshore and not regularly in Otago Harbour.