Atlantic blue marlin
Makaira nigricans

Atlantic blue marlin reaches sexual maturity at the age of two to four years.

The Atlantic blue marlin is the most tropical of the billfishes.

The Atlantic blue marlin is under intense pressure from longline fishing.

The Atlantic blue marlin is one of three species in the genus Makaira.

The great white shark and shortfin mako are predators of the Atlantic blue marlin.

In 2010, Greenpeace International added the Atlantic blue marlin to its seafood red list.

The Atlantic blue marlin (hereafter, marlin) feeds on a wide variety of organisms near the surface.

The Atlantic blue marlin was first described in 1802 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède.

The Atlantic blue marlin is part of the billfish family Istiophoridae and is in the perch-like order Perciformes.

Some other historic English names for the Atlantic blue marlin are the Cuban black marlin, ocean gar, and ocean guard.

The synthesis shows that those species which combine a long life with a high economic value, such as the Atlantic blue marlin and the white marlin, are generally threatened.

The Azores is home to Atlantic blue marlin records for, amongst others, IGFA 50 lb and 80 lb line classes.

The island of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands is one of the most renowned Atlantic blue marlin destinations.

The Atlantic blue marlin is listed as a threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

In Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea a fisherman named Santiago battles an Atlantic blue marlin for three days off the coast of Cuba.

There is controversy about whether the Indo-Pacific blue marlin, Makaira mazara, is the same species as the Atlantic blue marlin, Makaira nigricans.

Scientists distinguish between two species of blue marlin, the Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and the Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara).

Along the eastern seaboard of the United States and in the Bahamas and Caribbean, rigged Spanish mackerel and horse ballyhoo are widely used for Atlantic blue marlin.

North Carolina was home to the former all-tackle world record Atlantic blue marlin, a 1,128 lb fish that also stood as the world record for 80 lb class tackle for over seventeen years.

On a series of Bermuda pound banknotes issued from 2009, the bridge is featured on the reverse of the pink five pound note, along with Horseshoe Bay and opposite an Atlantic blue marlin.

Billfishes consist of ten species: Atlantic blue marlin, Pacific blue marlin, black marlin, white marlin, striped marlin, Atlantic sailfish, Pacific sailfish, longbill spearfish, shortbill spearfish, and swordfish.

Adults are threatened only by the largest and fastest hunters, such as toothed whales, particularly the false killer whale, pelagic sharks such as the mako and great white, large Atlantic blue marlin and Pacific blue marlin, and black marlin.

Established in 1957, the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament draws large crowds of sporting enthusiasts of all types to Morehead City each year to witness some of the largest Atlantic Blue Marlin catches in North America.

It annually holds the "Torneo Internacional de Aguja Azul en Línea Liviana" or "International Atlantic blue marlin Light Line Fishing tournament" which is the biggest of its kind in Puerto Rico and in 2010 celebrates its twenty second edition.

Largest of the many big blue marlin caught at Vitória is the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle record for Atlantic blue marlin, held by Paulo Amorim, who caught a Blue marlin that weighed 636 kg (1,402 lb).

The Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean.

There is controversy about whether the Indo-Pacific blue marlin, Makaira mazara, is the same species as the Atlantic blue marlin, Makaira nigricans.

Scientists distinguish between two species of blue marlin, the Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and the Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara).

Although traditionally listed as separate species, recent research indicates that the Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara) may be disjoint ranges of the same species, see Atlantic blue marlin.