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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.
A marlin features prominently in the last chapter and climactic scenes of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children. Sam's friend Saul gives Sam a marlin, and Sam makes his children help him render the fish's fat. The Miami Marlins, a professional baseball team based in Miami, Florida, is named after the fish.
Marlin is a digital and print magazine that covers big-game fishing around the world. Its headquarters are in Winter Park, Florida , and is published by the Bonnier Corporation . Jack Vitek is Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.
Black marlin are fished commercially and are also a highly prized game fish. Black marlins were known to drag ancient Maldivian fishing boats for very long distances until the marlins tired; it would take many hours for the fishermen to row or sail back home. [6]
The white marlin (Tetrapterus albida/Kajikia albida), also known as Atlantic white marlin, marlin, skilligalee, [3] is a species of billfish that lives in the epipelagic zone of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. They are found between the latitudes of 45° N and 45° S in waters deeper than 100 m.
Seven-foot (two-meter) Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara).This big-game fish was caught near Cabo San Lucas, on the Pacific coast of Mexico.. Big-game fishing, also known as offshore sportfishing, offshore gamefishing or blue-water fishing, is a form of recreational fishing targeting large game fish, usually on a large body of water such as a sea or ocean.
Black marlin (Makaira indica) inhabits the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean between latitudes 25 o N and 45 o S. [1] M indica is largely considered to be a bycatch of industrial and artisanal fisheries and since the 1990s catches in the Indian Ocean have increased steadily, from 2,800 t in 1991 to over 10,000 t in 2004.
On August 4, 1953, while fishing off of Cabo Blanco, Glassell caught a black marlin weighing 1,560 pounds (710 kg) using a handheld 7-foot (2.1 m) bamboo rod, a Fin-Nor reel and 130-pound-test linen line. [5] This set a new IGFA record in the all-tackle and 130-pound line classes, and for the largest bony fish caught by hand. [6]