Competitive fishermen catch $6.5m, nearly 1k-pound marlin in North Carolina. Then scientists looked inside

Competitive fishermen catch $6.5m, nearly 1k-pound marlin in North Carolina. Then scientists looked inside

North Carolina State University scientists made an unusual discovery examining a record-breaking blue marlin after North Carolina’s 68th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in Morehead City, North Carolina. Inside the nearly 1,000-pound fish, researchers found multiple billfish. Blue marlin are themselves a type of billfish, and so finding multiple billfish inside a giant blue marlin provides a rare documented example of a top ocean predator …