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The ocean's sports car: built for speed, status, and ruining your fishing line.
means A large, fast-swimming billfish with a spear-like upper jaw, prized as one of the biggest and strongest trophies in game fishing.
from 'Marlin' likely comes from 'marlinspike,' the pointed tool sailors used to splice rope — a fitting echo of the fish's long, tapering bill. 'Blue' just names the species' steel-blue back, distinguishing it from its striped and black cousins. The blue marlin itself was catapulted to legend by Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea,' cementing its reputation as the ultimate deep-sea prize long before anyone had GPS or fish-finders to help land one.
- top speed
- can hit 50 mph in short bursts
- size
- females grow far larger than males
- diet
- stuns prey by slashing with its bill
- fame
- hemingway's favorite literary adversary