Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico #4 in sequence of 7

Sergio Hanquet / Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans). Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Pascal Kobeh / Sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) hunting Sardines (Sardinella), Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Caribbean Sea.

Doc White / Striped Marlin (Tetrapturus audax), Mexico.

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} chasing teaser bait, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} off Isla Mujeres, streaming bubbles from swiping at bait on surface, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} retracting dorsal and ventral fins to accelerate, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} with bite wound on right flank, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} off Baja California, Mexico. Haze behind Marlin is blood and scales from Sardines slaughtered by Marlin

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Brandon Cole photographs a Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico. Digitally enhanced

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico #5 in sequence of 7

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} and California sea lions {Zalophus californianus} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico, Digitally manipulated

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} brings down a cloud of bubbles after striking a Sardine with its bill at the surface, while feeding on baitball of Sardines / Pilchards {Sardinops sagax} off Baja Ca...

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} feeding on baitball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} off Baja California, Mexico, Digitally manipulated

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} leaping out of the water, off Baja California, Mexico

Doug Perrine / With a deadly swipe of its bill, a Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} dispatches a Sardine / Pilchard {Sardinops sagax} and prepares to swallow it, after chasing it out of a bait ball, off Baja Califo...

Doug Perrine / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} leaping out of the water, off Baja California, Mexico

Kim Taylor / Striped marlin {Tetrapturus audax} breaching, Indian Ocean. Digitally enhanced

David Fleetham / Blue marlin (Makaira mazara / nigricans) fighting with fishing line out of the water, with the island of Lanai in the background, Hawaii.