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Holy crap! That's a cool shot. Unbelievable the size of some of these fish.
Saltwater Sportsman had a pretty gloomy article about the billfish statuses. Catch and release studies are starting to see if it works for billfish. Estimates are that 85% survive being caught... not too bad. Various studies have supported that, but they are in their infancy and have only included a few dozen fish.
However, they went on to talk about the numbers of fish that don't survive the longlining fishery and how longlines don't discriminate against sailfish and marlin.
Oh, back to that again. Estimations have swordfish and blue marlin stocks down 90%... pretty scary.
Its pretty cool that the majority of the recreational billfishing is now catch and release anyway.
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