A South Florida charter boat made an astoundingly rare catch on Father's Day, June 15. While daytime swordfishing, the crew ...

A South Florida fisherman reeled in a rare Opah over the weekend which she caught off the waters in Fort Lauderdale.It started as a typical Swordfish trip for ...

Laurel David caught a rare 148-pound Moonfish off Fort Lauderdale, a notable event as Opah are deep-sea and warm-blooded fish.

Yet opah isn’t just a Hawaiian fish; it lives also in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic. The opah now sold in California is caught mostly in the Pacific, halfway between California and Hawaii.

Tiffany Boothe, assistant manager at the aquarium in the small beach community of Seaside, said it’s the first opah fish she has seen on area beaches. Newsletter Daily. Today’s Headlines.

New research has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds, giving it a competitive ...

The 100-pound (45 kilogram) opah fish, also known as a moonfish, was discovered on Sunset Beach in Seaside, a city in the northwest side of the state.

Warm-blooded fish is an agile predator. An opah captured during longline surveys by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. NOAA Fisheries West Coast — -- With its tire-sized frame and ...

Southwest Fisheries Science Center biologist Nick Wegner holds a captured opah, the first warm-blooded fish ever found. NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

A weird-looking 3.5-foot-long fish was found washed up on an Oregon beach on Wednesday—and identified as a rare sighting of an opah. The Seaside Aquarium in the city of Seaside said the fish ...

The fish reportedly weighs about 143 pounds, larger than the average 100-pound opah fish. Aside from the size, there’s another reason why the catch was so exciting for the fishermen.