Michel Frisch, Luxemburg
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Makaira nigricans, also known as Atlantic Blue Marlin or simply Blue Marlin, are found throughout the Atlantic. By a line of Nova Scotia in the west to the Bay of Biscay in the east, to the south to the Cape of Good Hope in the east, and Cape Horn in the West is its range.
Its dorsal body coloration is often a dark blue. Anteriorly the body is silver-white with mostly different shades. It shows 15 dark vertical stripes or spots on the body on a silvery-blue background .
You must have very, very much luck, once to see in the open sea a Blue Marlin, or even with it's scientific name Makaira nigricans . Even more luck then you have if you have taken about 500 pictures and a few of then are reasonably successful. The fish is incredibly fast and just barely successful to phograph. The picture below was taken in the open sea near South Africa at a "blue-water diving", a rare picture taken at the southernmost tip of its habitat and completely unexpected.
This fish is definitely NOT a fish for an aquarium, even not for large one. Anyone who has seen the speed at which this fish circles, has seen the impressive size and elegance with which he swims and build with group of other blue marlins so called "bite ball's" or "bite bates“ from schools of fish (like sardines, herring, mackerel, tuna) usually near the surface, which are then destroyed by the group until the last fish is deeply impressed. Even dolphins are on his menu, even if rare.
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Its dorsal body coloration is often a dark blue. Anteriorly the body is silver-white with mostly different shades. It shows 15 dark vertical stripes or spots on the body on a silvery-blue background .
You must have very, very much luck, once to see in the open sea a Blue Marlin, or even with it's scientific name Makaira nigricans . Even more luck then you have if you have taken about 500 pictures and a few of then are reasonably successful. The fish is incredibly fast and just barely successful to phograph. The picture below was taken in the open sea near South Africa at a "blue-water diving", a rare picture taken at the southernmost tip of its habitat and completely unexpected.
This fish is definitely NOT a fish for an aquarium, even not for large one. Anyone who has seen the speed at which this fish circles, has seen the impressive size and elegance with which he swims and build with group of other blue marlins so called "bite ball's" or "bite bates“ from schools of fish (like sardines, herring, mackerel, tuna) usually near the surface, which are then destroyed by the group until the last fish is deeply impressed. Even dolphins are on his menu, even if rare.
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