Marlin Blue (Makaira nigricans and Makaira mazara)

The first family member Istiophoridae billfish, blue marlin is a species of big game before anyone else. He has exceptional size and strength is a powerful and aggressive fighter. 

He works hard and long, deep sound, and leapt into the air on a screen, seemingly inexhaustible strength. Intensely pursued commercially in many parts of its range, is overfished. The flesh is pale and firm and makes excellent table fare, especially when smoked. In the East, which often served as sashimi or fish sauce. Blue Marlin are rarely consumed in North America, and most are caught by fishermen released after his capture, and many of those released are marked.

Marlin Blue

Marlin Blue is the larges Marlin in the Atlantic Ocean. Elsewhere, the quantity that can still be equal to or greater than the black marlin. Japanese longline fishery relations with the point that the Blue Marlin is the largest member of a growing family istiophoridae. It seems to grow on average in the Pacific, where decades ago, a sample of commercially exploited reportedly weighed 2,200 GBP, and the fisherman caught the model (which does not comply with the status of world records), weighed 1800 pounds. All tackle world record Atlantic Blues is a 1402-lb caught in 1992 in Vitoria, Brazil, all records in the world to deal with Pacific Blues 1376 - pounder caught in 1982, Kona, Hawaii. Giants are all women, since men rarely blue marlin over 300 pounds. Most blue marlin encountered by fishermen vary between 150 and 400 pounds. Blue Marlin is expected to live more than 15 years, although fish over 10 years of age are rare.

Marlin Blue

This pelagic, migratory species occur in tropical and warm temperate oceanic waters. In the Atlantic, it is 45 degrees north latitude 35 degrees south and the Pacific from 48 ° north latitude 48 degrees south. It is less abundant in the eastern parts of both oceans. In the northern Gulf of Mexico, his movements seem to be associated with what is called the Loop Current, an extension of the current Caribbean. seasonal concentrations occur in the southwest Atlantic (5 ° to 30 ° south latitude) from January to April in the Northwest Atlantic (10 ° to 35 ° north latitude) from June to October, and in the Western and Central Pacific (2-24 ° N) from May to October.

The life history of blue marlin is poorly understood. The full extent of his travels and his sea marine generating actions are not known. These fish are in hot water around deep sea blue, often at considerable depths, where there are underwater structures (eg, canyons, walls, hills, seamounts) and the currents bring an abundance of bait supplies fish. They are usually solitary.