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[jaws]

Ive eaten blue marlin. It aint bad. Especially smoked. But Im with you. Dont like to see it on a menu. Swordfish either.

What fish would you compare it to, taste and texture ?

[Team Karma]

What fish would you compare it to, taste and texture ?

Rubber. Don't eat it.

[Squidnation]

Pacific Blue marlin is very LEGAL to be sold in the US. I Am I think almost postive that it is legal to harvest, export, sell etc. Hawaiian caught blue marlin.

BTW- The US is the largest importer of billfish. Mostly used for pet food. Swami here on the board had some great insight on this topic in past threads.

[merry marlin]

How are you supposed to find fresh fish to buy in our area??... BSB closed, ARS closed, Beeliner closed, grouper soon to be closed.... Must be getting a little hard being a Pro Fisherman!

Always find it interesting how protective most folks are about Billfish (and I'd Agree) but then then it's fine to knock out (what I'd call) juvenile YFT's and BFT's...
MM

[bigfishhooker]

How are you supposed to find fresh fish to buy in our area??... BSB closed, ARS closed, Beeliner closed, grouper soon to be closed.... Must be getting a little hard being a Pro Fisherman!

Always find it interesting how protective most folks are about Billfish (and I'd Agree) but then then it's fine to knock out (what I'd call) juvenile YFT's and BFT's...
MM

Agree with you there MerryMan...I also hate seeing those baby mahi come back to the dock too. I've resulted to catching my legal limit as often as possible, vacuum sealing it and then finding something else to fish for in these species' offseason...ie, jigging will be here soon!!.

And I've tasted sail and marlin in CR when there on a past visit. Good stuff but I'm just still against it.

[Jay W]

I went to Divines in Murrells Inlet SC a week or so ago and the special was Blue Marlin. I was surprised and asked a few questions about where they got it, being that they serve a lot of local caught items it peaked my curiosity. Waitress didn't know and I didn't push the issue. Ate some in Kona a few years ago that the locals had smoked, it was fair. Seems there are plenty of other fish they could serve without the threat of loosing repeat customers.

[SeaBiscuit]

Only eat atlantic billfish on the east coast, but when in the pacific I eat the local variety. Local is fresh!

[CaptGorges]

I like Marlin (blackened steaks..mmmm) and don't think anything about people who keep tons of little mahi (would you keep a blue/spanish that size?). However, if you aren't going to eat it, let it swim.

Fish are for eating. Now, would I release a marlin/sail if I got the chance? Yes, but if it is dead at the boat I am eating that sucker. I had some customers fishing with me this summer, said they fished on a Morehead boat, caught a 400-500# blue (according to cap and mate), was brought up dead, group wanted to eat it, crew said they didn't want to **** with it ("not worth eating") and let it sink...That is a waste right there.

[captnemo]

The blue marlin your seeing on the menu come from hawaii; yes it is in the pacific and yes it is a US state. How did this discussion about take marlin off the menu turn into importing illegal fish.

Hawaii exports blue marlin to resteraunt on the east coats a lot, in my little town of Deale, MD you can get it occasionally when flown in over night from Hawaii, and it is awesome. Some of the best fish on the plate.

The blue marlin are fine, the importation is legal and the fish is delicious, so whats the big deal? There is swordfish steaks in every supermarket on the east coats, and the nearly extinct bluefin being caught and eaten right off our coasts, but you want to worry about a blue marlin?

[bigfishhooker]

Sorry Nemo,

I just don't agree marlin should be on a menu. Agreed on your points about the consumption of the others. I will leave that to another thread.

I don't eat out much for fish..based on being blessed with a NC base that allows my freezer to be stocked with tunas, grouper, mahi, cobia, pompano, striper, wahoo and some piggies at any given time, I get to prepare my own. You won't see any marlin in there either. I doubt what was being offered up was dead sportfish bycatch. Because of this presumption, I won't eat it.

Let's go fishing! You can keep the dead marlin!!