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 feeding on closely related species. This information can help researchers better understand billfish behavior and predator-prey relationships.
