Baby Swordfish
This is a juvenile swordfish. It’s hard to believe, but that small fish can grow to be over 1000 pounds! Billfish of this kind include sailfish, sawfish, swordfish, and marlin. The most giant marlin ever seen on rod and reel weighed 1,560 pounds and was 14 feet, 6 inches in length. But there are stories of a longliner landing a marlin off the coast of Venezuela in 1976 that weighed over 4500 pounds. It was apparently so enormous that it had to be split into three pieces before being weighed. A replica may be seen near the Cultural Pavillion of the Republic’s marina entrance.
Baby Swordfish
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