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This 794-pound black marlin tagged by Kekoa was this year's winner after traveling 2,577 nautical miles. (Photo courtesy Kelly Dalling Fallon of www.blackmarlinfishingblog.com)
By IGFA
With 30 satellite tags deployed in blue marlin, black marlin, and sailfish in six countries, the second year of the IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR) has come to a close.
The IGFA’s billfish research program, working in collaboration with Stanford University, held seven tagging events in 2012-2013 that tracked a total of 17,059 nautical miles (nm) on imperiled billfish species worldwide, covering more than 5,000 nm more than the previous year.
Every fish track is available to the public and to researchers to help them learn more about billfish, but the fish that travels the farthest is crowned the annual IGMR winner.
This year’s winning fish was a 794-pound...