a) 



^ Mi, 



b) 



«■■' H 



Figure 4.— Distribution of white marlin by 

 season: a) May-October; b) November- 

 April. (From Ueyanagi et al., 1970, Fig. 18 

 and caption.) 



Ueyanagi (1959) suggested that some of the larvae 

 identified by Gehringer (1957, Figs. 6, 10, 14) as 

 sailfish might have been white marlin. These 

 specimens were collected in the western North Atlan- 

 tic, from Cuba to the Carolinas, in May-September. 



Hayasi et al. ( 1970)* state that the high hook rate off 



'The material in Hayasi et al. (1970) is a summary of English of 

 the material which was presented by Ueyanagi et al. (1970) in 

 Japanese, except for a synopsis, table and figure captions, names of 



southern Brazil in November-April is associated with 

 the appearance of large-sized fish, which, with the 

 appearance of postlarvae and juveniles, assures that 

 this is an immigration of spawning adults. They note 

 that "White marlin seem to spawn rarely in the 

 equatorial waters", but that "matured adults appear 

 in the northern Caribbean Sea and off Florida during 



fishes, and English language references, which were presented in 

 English (S. Hayasi, pers. commun.). 



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