Major Locations For Black Marlin Charters
The Black Marlin (Makaira Indica from the order Perciformes) that lives in surface waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One of the fastest fish on earth (50 miles per hour), M. Indica weighs in at around 750 kilometers (approximately 1700 pounds), although larger specimens have been caught. It is a highly sought after commercial game fish. Black Marlin charters offer a thoroughly satisfying sports fishing experience.
Seafood Red List
Makaira, along with other genera of the Perciformes order, is on the Greenpeace seafood red list. This is a list of commonly available fish that are highly likely to be sourced from unsustainable sources. For this reason, most modern sport fishermen will return them to the sea once they have caught and photographed them. It is in the same family, Istiophoridae, as the Japanese white and Hawaiian silver marlins.
Santiago
Ernest Hemingway’s old fisherman, Santiago, made his fictional claim to fame when he broke a nearly three-month dry spell when he finally hooked a Makaira. The remainder of the novel, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, captures the chronology of the old man’s brave struggle with the beast and Mother Nature.
Color
Despite its descriptive name, M. Indica is not actually black but white and deep blue. It’s tail fins and inflexible pectoral fins, however, are black. Its cross section is more oval than round, unlike its blue cousin, and its ventral fins are rarely longer than 12 inches, no matter how big the fish itself is. It likes warm tropical and subtropical waters near coastland. Occasionally it makes an appearance as far south as Brazil and as far north as the Lesser Antilles.
Fishing Tours
Some of the most popular tours for M. Indica cruise the waters of Australia’s east coast. Roughly 70 per cent of all Makaira larger than 1000 pounds in weight have been found along a 150-mile long section of the Great Barrier Reef located off the coast at Cairns. The combined hauls of Portugal, Brazil and Hawaii only amount to half this collective mass.
Deap Sea
The Gold Coast at Brisbane is a very popular gathering place for light tackle enthusiasts seeking Makaira and other game fish. Here they can trawl for Spanish Mackerel, Mia, Wahoo and others. Bottom fishers, otherwise known as ‘jiggers’, come here to find Kingfish, Cobia, Peal Perch and Snapper.
Port Stephens
Port Stephens is more than twice the size of Sydney Harbor. With its beautiful scenery, glassy clear waters and golden shoreline, it is a world-class focus for game fishing. Tours from this area depart during the month of January through April.
Black Marlin Charters also operate out of Central America’s Republic of Guatemala. Some of the most bountiful hauls of billfish have been reported to have come from here. On a good day, an angler can bag 20 or more fish in a single day. Because of its position tucked in between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the area is prone to hurricanes. This controls the months during which Black Marlin Fishing charters are able to operate.
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