The team that caught the fish was competing in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament this past weekend.
– A fishing crew lost out on millions of dollars in prize money after catching a 619-pound blue marlin.in Morehead, North Carolina Saturday.
They spent six hours bringing the massive fish thinking they had won the big prize, which would have been $3.5 million. Unfortunately, judges and biologists disqualified the catch because there was evidence it had been bitten by a shark before it was caught. A different crew brought in a 484-pound blue marlin and won first place in the tournament as well as the prize money.
The Big Rock Tournament record was set in 2019 when a crew hauled in a marlin weighing a staggering 914 pounds.
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