Overview
- The catch, which was hauled in Wednesday, Aug. 19 about 100 miles off Cape Cod in Atlantis Canyon, weighed 1,260 pounds and measured more than 11 feet.
- Angler Walter Chapman fought the marlin for roughly three hours on rod and reel while captain Damon Sacco maneuvered the charter boat and the fish's bill punched holes in the boat's transom.
- The fish was brought to Falmouth for a public weigh-in that drew a crowd and the crew divided the meat among about a dozen people with some likely used for chowder.
- At 1,260 pounds the marlin falls 142 pounds short of the 1992 International Game Fish Association all‑tackle world record from Brazil and no formal record certification has been reported.
- The fish’s head is at the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab for aging to test a preliminary estimate of about 25 to 30 years and to help scientists understand how a specimen of this size reached New England waters.