Marlin has commercial value throughout the world, with landings totalling 3,064 metric tons in 2000 [REF].
Sport fishermen first encountered blue marlin in the Bahamas in the 1920s and early 1930s, when pioneering big-game fishermen such as Van Campen Heilner and S. Kip Farrington began exploring the waters offshore of Bimini and Cat Cay.