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2. Atlantic blue marlin - Wikipedia

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   The Atlantic blue marlin (hereafter, blue marlin) feeds on a wide variety of organisms near the surface. It uses its bill to stun, injure, or kill while knifing through a school of fish or other prey, then returns to eat the injured or stunned fish. Marlin is a popular game fish. The relatively high fat content of its meat makes it commercially ...

3. Makaira - Wikipedia

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   Marlina Hirasaka & H. Nakamura, 1947. Orthocraeros J. L. B. Smith, 1956. Makaira (Latin via Greek: μαχαίρα "sword") is a genus of marlin in the family Istiophoridae. It includes the Atlantic blue and Indo-Pacific blue marlins. [2] In the past, the black marlin was also included in this genus, but today it is placed in its own genus ...

4. Sailfish - Wikipedia

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   Sailfish. The sailfish is one of two species of marine fish in the genus Istiophorus, which belong to the family Istiophoridae (marlins). They are predominantly blue to gray in colour and have a characteristically large dorsal fin known as the sail, which often stretches the entire length of the back.

5. Marlin - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Ascension Island Marine Protected Area - Wikipedia

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   Ascension Island is an isolated 88-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) large volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean. [1] It rises from the sea floor as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. [2] The protected area covers the entirety of the island's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. [1] [3] : 2 In total, 443,571 square kilometres (171,264 sq mi ...

7. Indo-Pacific blue marlin - Wikipedia

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   The classification of the Indo-Pacific blue marlin (M. mazara) and the Atlantic blue marlin (M. nigricans) as separate species is under debate. [1] Genetic data suggest, although the two groups are isolated from each other, that they are both the same species, with the only genetic exchange occurring when Indo-Pacific blue marlin migrate to and ...