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FISH FACTS: Striped marlin
STRIPED marlin (Kajikia audax) are widely considered to be the most hotly contested of the billfish species. This is because, as the best eating of the billfish, they are heavily targeted by the commercial longlining sector in many parts of their range (which includes both the Pacific and Indian Oceans) for lucrative sashimi markets. However, striped marlin are also an exciting gamefish which form the basis of economically important recreational fisheries in many places throughout the world, including Australia.
Taxonomically, amongst the billfishes the striped marlin is most closely related to the Atlantic white marlin (Kajikia albida). Until relatively recently, both these species were grouped together with the spearfishes in the genus Tetrapturus, however in 2006 a study published in the Bulletin of Marine Science used genetic and other evidence to separate both the “medium sized” marlins (white and striped) into the genus Kajikia, leaving the smal