Species ID
View AllBlue Marlin
( Makaira nigricans )
Description
Other names
Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin
How to Catch
Distribution
Eating
Fast Facts
- Is a member of the family Istiophoridae (billfishes)
- Can grow to 5m in length
- Global distribution
- Popular catch & release sport fish
- Listed as Vulnerable
- Largest of all Marlin species
- Use their bill to kill prey
- Will readily take trolled skirted and diving lures, trolled whole dead baits, as well as live baits
- Good eating
