Although swordfish were certainly considered edible, tuna and marlin were thought of as strictly objects of the hunt.
After eighty-four luckless days a marlin strikes his bait a hundred fathoms below the boat.
The catch can include sailfish, marlin, tuna and many other species.
Trolling with artificial or real squid is a common technique for catching big game fish, such as marlin.
But the brothers know how to hook marlin-size political symbolism.
White marlin are only eligible for release so all of these beautiful billfish were released.
marlin was in the business of providing management services and making investments.
British Dictionary definitions for marlin
marlin
/ˈmɑːlɪn/
noun (pl) -lin, -lins
1.
any of several large scombroid food and game fishes of the genera Makaira, Istiompax, and Tetrapturus, of warm and tropical seas, having a very long upper jaw: family IstiophoridaeAlso called spearfish
Word Origin
C20: from marlinespike; with allusion to the shape of the beak
marline
/ˈmɑːlɪn/
noun
1.
(nautical) a light rope, usually tarred, made of two strands laid left-handed
Word Origin
C15: from Dutch marlijn, from marren to tie + lijn line
Word Origin and History for marlin
n.
large marine game-fish, 1917, shortening of marlinspike fish (1907), from marlinspike, name of a pointed iron tool used by sailors (see marlinspike). The fish was so called from the shape of its elongated upper jaw.