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The striped marlin can live up to 10 years, and reaches sexual maturity at the age of 1–2 years or 1.4 m (4.6 ft) for males and 1.5-2.5 years or 1.8 m (5.9 ft) for females. It spawns serially during its summer spawning season, which consists of anywhere from 4 to 41 spawning events, with females releasing batches of their up to 120 million ...
A taxidermied marlin greets visitors to Dare County, North Carolina. In the Nobel Prize -winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea , the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck.
Scientific name Family Common family name Endemic; Fisher's angelfish [9] ... Striped marlin [11] Striped marlin: Tetrapturus: T. audax: Istiophoridae [56] Marlin: N
Common name Binomial Sinhala Name Indo-Pacific sailfish. Istiophorus platypterus: Thalapath (තලපත්) Black marlin: Istiompax indica: Kalu kopparaa (කලු කොප්පරා) Striped marlin. Kajikia audax: Iri kopparaa (ඉරි කොප්පරා) Atlantic blue marlin. Makaira nigricans: Nil koppara (නිල් ...
The average catch for 2013-2017 was 113,000Mt with swordfish and Indo-Pacific sailfish accounting for around two thirds of total catches followed by black marlin, blue marlin and striped marlin. [10] In the last few years, 75% of all billfish catches were recorded by five countries comprising Indonesia, Iran, India, Sri Lanka and Taiwan, China ...
This list comprises locally used common names, scientific names with author citation and recorded ranges. ... Striped marlin, Kajikia audax (Philippi, 1887), ...
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The blue marlin of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are more widely pursued by sport fishermen than any other marlin species. Their wide distribution in tropical oceanic waters and seasonally into temperate zones makes them available to many anglers, and their potential to reach great sizes and spectacular fighting ability makes them a highly desired catch to some anglers.