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...striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size was caught in 1964. Off Acapulco, Mexico, headquarters of one of the world's biggest (300 boats) sport-fishing fleets, commercials have zeroed in on that most spectacular of seagoing acrobats, the Pacific sailfish. Two years ago, in Acapulco's annual tournament, 48 anglers landed 176 sails; last year's catch was barely half that...
...last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
Gone, Overnight. One top sport-fishing hole so far seems safe: Panama's Piñas Bay (TIME, July 10, 1964), where hundreds of marlin and thousands of sailfish were boated last year. Maybe the commercial fishermen were too busy elsewhere. Off Montauk Point, N.Y., where a favorite sport is fishing for sharks, commercial fishermen have practically eliminated the scrappy and tasty porbeagle. The pressure is growing at Maryland's "Jack Spot," the summer home of the tough little (world's record: 161 lbs.) white marlin. Until commercials showed up in the Jack Spot last summer...
...buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California one day last spring, enraged Mexican sport fishermen counted more than 300 sailfish on the 2,000 hooks of a single long line. The line was only one of five laid by a Japanese boat that fished the area for 14 days. Total estimated catch: 21,000 sailfish...
...campaign juices. During a shopping trip to Charlotte Amalie, he bought a can of salted nuts, a tax-free wrist watch-and strode up and down the streets all but searching for more hands to shake. He went deep-sea fishing, boated a 6-ft. 6-in. sailfish, posed afterward for bare-chested photographs with his son Bob. 20. To prove "his prowess, Hubert proudly flexed his biceps...