Do you know the difference between a Blue, white marlin and a swordfish ?
Sometimes you need to get the fish close to the boat to recognize the differences and in fact i've met sport fisherman that didn't recognize the fish even when in the boat. The fish behavior in the end of the line can give you a clue, but if you're not trained to recognize that behavior it is natural to make a mistake.The swordfish or broadbills, even resembling the comum billfish such as the marlins, they are not from the same family. Apparently they are migratory and live in all Oceans of the world. The traditional jumping out of the water when hooked doesn't happen with the swordfish. Or at least I never heard of. On the contrary of the marlins, the swordfish only feed at night and therefore to hook one of these have to be at sunrise or at dusk. Swordfish are dark grey to silver grey in the belly and their body is round.
White marlin can never grow to sizes like the blue marlin and the swordfish.
White Marlin Max: ???? 83Kg
Atlantic Blue Marlin Max: 5 meters 820Kg.
Swordfish Max: 4,5 meters 650Kg
(Max values ever recorded)
But if it's a small blue marlin, approximately the size of an grown white marlin????
The white marlin puts a show of agility almost like the easy recognized sailfish, running on out of the water flapping his tale to suspend the body while the blue marlins just do jumps, not runs. Blue marlin have a stronger body while the the white is slender. Also the side flippers of the white marlin are slightly longer and round while blue are pointy.
We can recognise the differences when have them side by side, but at the distance we can not see this differences."The back flipper!".
If you look carefully, there is no possible mistake with swordfish which have a back flipper similar to the blue marlin but much longer. White marlin back flipper is not pointy like the others, it is cut/round.The images are self explanatory
For those who do not have an eye ready, yet, start looking for these clues.
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