Marlin
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for open-sea fish related to the sailfish and swordfish (family Istiophoridae) and prized by sportsmen.
Marlin are rarely table fare. Most modern sport fisherman release marlin after unhooking. Some marlin that are top record setting fish are taken and weighed on shore. Those records are most often recorded in the IGFA World Record Game Fishes books.
Marlin
The marlin is a large game fish. It has an elongated body up to 2.5 m long, a spearlike snout, and a long rigid dorsal fin which extends forwards to form a crest.
Blue Marlin:
Appearance:
Upper cobalt blue on top shading to a silvery white below
Upper jaw elongated in form of a spear
The dorsal, pectoral and anal fins are all pointed
No dark spots on the dorsal fin ...
Blue Marlin Range
Fast Facts
Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 27 years (female) Size: Up to 14 ft (4.3 m) Weight: Up to 1,985 lbs (900 kg) Group name: School Did you know?
Black Marlin, Makaira indica (Cuvier, 1832) - Australian Museum
Blue Marlin, Makaira nigricans - Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Makaira indica, Black marlin - Australian Fisheries Resources, 1993 ...
Blue Marlin - Received from Jarrod in San Diego.
Q: where can I find info on the Blue Marlin?
Include marlin, sailfish, swordfish and spearfish
Length
Maximum 455cm ...
A Black Marlin at the surface
A Black Marlin off the Great Barrier Reef
A Black Marlin off the Pacific coast of Panama
A Black Rockcod at South Solitary Island
A Black Rockcod caught at Bermagui
A Black Rockcod in a rockpool at Bellambi ...
In: Bowles, Marlin L.; Whelan, Christopher J., eds. Restoration of endangered species: Conceptual issues, planning, and implementation. New York: Cambridge University Press: 272-297. [66618] 17. Clark, Tim W.; Forrest, Steven C.
The great white shark is known to live mainly on large fish such as tuna, marlin and broadbill swordfish. As well as these fast - swimming species it will also catch sluggish bottom-dwelling skates and rays.
When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him.
America possesses two species of the genus, the very large marbled godwit or marlin, L. fedoa, easily recognized by its size and the buff colour of its axillaries, and the smaller Hudsonian godwit, L.
Predators
Sperm whales, sharks, seals, swordfish, and marlin feed on Humboldt squid of all sizes, while gulls and large fish often capture juveniles.
SUBORDER SCOMBROIDEI
snake mackerels, cutlassfishes, scabbardfishes, swordfishes, billfishes, marlins, mackerels, tunas, bonitos
SUBORDER STROMATEOIDEI
amarsipids, medusafishes, flotsamfishes, ariommatids, squaretails, butterfishes ...
Common Whimbrel, Curlew, Eurasian Whimbrel, Western Whimbrel, Blue-Legs, Crooked-bill Marlin, Foolish Curlew, Jack, Jack Curlew, Short-billed Curlew, Striped Head, Whimbrel
Bird Family : ...
Diet
This species of shark feeds mainly upon fast moving fishes such as tuna, barracuda and white marlin. However it also consumes squid, turtles, seabirds and even garbage that has been disposed of at sea.
In the 2003 Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, a Brown Pelican named Nigel helps Marlin find his son.
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Adult in flight at Morro Bay ...
Grebe, Clark's Aechmophorus clarkii Found: North America
Photographed by: 1) Marlin Harms 2, 3) Mike Baird 4) Dick Daniels in Arizona ...
The crevalle jack is a prey item for various surface-feeding carnivores, such as finfish (i.e. striped marlin, Tetrapturus audax) and sea birds.
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Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit: fact file (crru.org.uk)
IUCN Red List information (iucnredlist.org)
Humpback whale UK sightings (marlin.ac.uk)
Sea Watch Foundation: fact file (seawatchfoundation.org.uk)
Humpback whale (wikipedia.org) ...
These pups grow quickly in their first few years of life-more than 3 feet a year-to 'outsize' potential predators, including other sharks, orcas, and finfish such as marlin. Humans remain the most effective predator of adult whale sharks.
employed alternative costs the lives of 25,824 small tuna (these are discarded, not kept and utilized), 27 sharks and rays, 382 mahi mahi (also known as "dolphin fish"), 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 1 billfish such as a marlin or ...
Hind toe small, with a free membrane beneath; anterior toes nearly double the length of the tarsus, connected by reticulated membranes having a sinus on their free margins, the inner with a lobed marginal membrane, the outer with a thick marlin, ...
 See also: Tuna, Shark, Whale, Swordfish, Diver
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