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University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab
Coverage of University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab in the Nexus archive.
- Massachusetts fishermen land 1,260-pound blue marlin, just short of world record
Two Massachusetts fishermen, Damon Stacco and Walter Chapman, caught a large blue marlin weighing 1,260 pounds off Cape Cod. This catch is noted as potentially the largest Atlantic blue marlin ever captured on the East Coast. Experts examined the fish, estimating its age to be between 25 and 30 years old.