File:FMIB 34646 Sword-Fish, 400 Lbs Weight.jpeg

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English: Game and Fur-Bearing Animals. Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries
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English: [Record] Sword-Fish, 400 [125] Lbs. Weight
  • Subject: Swordfish, Fishers
  • Tag: Sport Fishing
Date Taken on 28 August 1903 ; published 1916
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-Bearing Animals. (1916) Conservation of Fish, Birds and Game : Proceedings at a Meeting of the Committee, November 1 and 2, 1915, Toronto: Methodist Book and Publishing House
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.
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English: Another photograph showing the same event gives the following informations: Weight: 125 lbs, Time 1 hr. 28 min, caught by Edward Llewellyn from Chicago, at Catalina Isl., Harry Willey boatman, Ironmonger photo[graph]. [1]
Press/other sources: Edward Llewellyn and Charles Streeter, members of the Catalina Marine band, which for three months each year gives daily concerts on the island, have to their credit a record which no fisherman has ever been known to express a desire to surpass. These men while fishing for yellowtail hooked a swordfish that fought them for half a day and the boatman had the time of his life to keep the boat from capsizing. (How Amateur Anglers at Catalina Island Break World's Records, Los Angeles Herald, Numer 306, 31 July 1904).
Various records of the Tuna Club show that the first marlin swordfish, Tetrapturus, caught by a club member on rod and reel, was taken on 28 August 1903 by Edward Llewellyn (Tuna Club Yearbook, 1963:63), but according to Capt. Harry Willey of Hollywood, California, he [Harry Willey] was the first to catch a striped marlin on 25 August 1903. Capt. Willey claims that the Tuna Club at Avalon refused to weigh the fish and record it on the grounds he was a professional boatman (...), and not an amateur. (John K. Howard, Shoji Ueyanagi: Distribution and Relative Abundance of Billfish (Istiophoridae) of the Pacific Ocean, University of Miami Scholarly Repository, Studies in Tropical Oceanography, University of Miami Press, 1965, p. 10). [2].
N.B.The building in the background is the Hotel Metropole, first home of the Tuna Club, Avalon Bay Beach, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA.

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