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schoolie monster, i know what you mean about the billfish stocks. Mostly I fish for billfish in bermuda and the marlin fishing is superb. But bermuda is a small place and do not have nearly the same amount of boats as say the bahamas. I think the bahamas has a seriously noticable billfish depletion situation. Like take Bimini for instance, they had a billfish tournament there this year and there were only like 3 fish caught ( all 100 lb fish) compared to about 10 years ago there were dozens of fish in the 500-600 lb class. Bimini used to be known as a great place for billfishing and has dramatically changed over the years. Granted Bimini is much easier accessable than bermuda and their allot of boats down there but in those tournaments they are killing any fish over 350lbs. i think the minimum should be much higher in some of those tournaments, maybe like 800lbs. I think the tagging and releasing program is a great way to bring these fish back. We are learning allot more about these fish, I have heard of four fish from either me or friends that were caught, retagged and released again this year. Well this is just my opinion and i am sure some of my friends wouldn't like my opinion here but that is just what i have been noticing.
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