On May 31, 1982, Jay de Beaubien caught the largest Pacific blue marlin ever recorded—1,376 pounds—to set the IGFA All-Tackle World Record for the species. De Beaubien ... Record with an incredible ...

The billfish slam requires catches of Atlantic blue marlin, Pacific blue marlin, black marlin, white marlin, striped marlin, Atlantic sailfish, Pacific sailfish, swordfish and spearfish.

After closing these areas for more than 20 years to commercial fishing, NOAA is viewing this as an opportunity to determine how effective the closure was at protecting swordfish, marlin, sailfish, and ...

As they continued heading offshore, barely an hour had passed when a hot striped marlin appeared in the spread. The fish, estimated at around 70 pounds, was hooked with a pitch bait, and the day ...

According to The Marlin Club in Shelter Island ... which is most common in New England. Both species of swordfish are considered one of the biggest and fastest predators in the ocean: they ...

Are there different kinds of swordfish, are they really that ... Others, such as sailfish, Atlantic blue marlin and black marlin, are related species of bony fishes that also have extended snouts ...

Alex Little from Queen’s University, Canada, has found that billfishes, like swordfish and marlin, are some of the ... Little sequenced DNA from three species of billfishes and three tunas ...

The swordfish, Xiphius gladius, is one of a group of large predatory fishes with swordlike projections known as billfish. Other billfish are several species of marlin, sailfish, and spearfish ...

Heat is lost around 3,000 times more quickly to water than to air, and of the 25,000 or so species of bony fish, only 22 - including swordfish, marlin, tuna and some sharks - have been found to ...

Sailfish vs Swordfish vs Marlin: Understanding the Billfish Family ... though they are genetically different and classified as separate species. One of the most notable attributes between them ...

Sailfish and swordfish are two of the top dogs of the big-game fishing world. These are some of the fastest, biggest, and hardest-fighting saltwater species that can be caught with a rod and reel. And ...

To determine whether species were correctly labeled ... Sailfish and swordfish showed low mislabeling rates (6.56% and 3.57%, respectively). “Approximately 10% of samples labeled as ‘marlin’ in ...