A strong tropical storm brushed past the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula in October 2019, causing some major disruption in the bustling resort town of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. After hearing of the ...

The sixth year of the IGFA Great Marlin Race is officially in the books, with a total of 57 tags deployed on blue, black and striped marlin in seven different countries. Altogether, these fish swam a ...

Marlins light up their stripes to co-ordinate attacks on schools of fish, a study has found. The large fish with long, pointed bills are rapid swimmers that hunt in groups, with each animal taking it ...

Rapid color changes allow striped marlin to coordinate, taking it in turns to attack prey, a new study has found. The study published in the journal Current Biology documented this phenomenon for the ...

Dock Totals 9/15– 9/21: 3540 anglers aboard 163 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 2009 bluefin tuna (up to 198 pounds), 22 bocaccio, 1477 bonito, 1 cabezon, ...

Bill and Jim Kingsmill, father and son, consider themselves “just a couple of weekend warriors.” During the week they’re hard at work, as an electrical contractor and a policeman, but by dawn just ...

An 80-pound striped marlin ripped off a remarkable 5,560 nautical miles in 216 days on its way to winning the 2016-17 sixth-annual International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Great Marlin Race, the ...

Using the largest tagging data set to date, biologists have shown that across the Pacific Ocean the vertical habitat of striped marlin is defined by the light-penetrated, uppermost part of the ocean ...

Among color-changing sea creatures, the ability to flash from one hue to another more typically comes in handy for evading predators rather than hunting prey. But the striped marlin, new research ...

As pack hunters, these athletes of the sea 'suddenly change color' to prevent collisions with their peers, which could have dire consequences. A striped marlin ("Tetrapturus audax") hunts a shoal of ...

An 849-pound black marlin, landed recently after a six-hour struggle off Barra de Navidad, Mexico, is believed to be the largest black marlin ever caught in the region. But Osiel Arteaga Aguilar’s ...

AMHERST, Mass. -- In the largest study to track striped marlin in the Pacific Ocean, marine ecologists report the preferred habitat of this valuable commercial and recreational fish by using direct ...