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Below, author Zane Grey being congratulated by a Tahitian Chief after catching his world record blue marlin (1,040 lbs.) in 1930.

Above, Zane Grey admires his world record blue marlin's massive head and huge first dorsal.  The blue marlin can be distinguished from the black marlin by its more streamlined body, its smaller head, its larger first dorsal (more than half the maximum body depth), its slightly up-curved bill, and by its pectoral fins that can fold flat into groves in its sides.

Above, unidentified angler with large blue marlin.  Note the very short branchiostegal bones supporting the membrane below its throat and lower jaw.  Black marlin's branchiostegals are twice as long - a good way to distinguish the two species.

Above, Lou Merron and a big blue marlin.

Above, Zane Grey fighting a big fish off Australia with his Kovalovsky reel.

Above Michael and Helen Lerner during their 1940 Peru-Chile Expedition.  All appear to be blue marlin with one black marlin (on the far right).

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Daily "Kill-o-Meter"

Longliners fish most heavily during the periods when the moon is brightest. So, this real-time image of the moon phase shows when the kill of swordfish is greatest and least. It also shows when the kill of blue marlin, white marlin, sailfish, sharks, tunas, sea turtles, marine mammals and a host of other marine life is also greatest - even though they are not even targeted. For more, see link above.

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