Jason Schratweiser

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 889: The Boss of All Fishing Records · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

But when we were first founded, we had what we called scientific affiliate groups like American Museum of Natural History, Chicago Field Museum, things like that, obviously going to our scientific roots.

But we had this international committee of representatives, men and women from different parts of the world that were really dialed in in their different locations.

So if a record catch came in and they were able to go over and kind of help validate it, they could do that.

They could give us news of what's going on with their fishing, et cetera.

So this guy was a rep, if I remember correctly, and I'm almost positive it was.

And the woman that managed the rep program was a very nice person.

And apparently, you know, he became enamored and he thought that submitting was going to help him like get a date with her.

I don't know.

Yeah.

And then, you know, but then you have, you have things that happen that are kind of like your blue cat.

So forever up until like 2006, there was this.

mystery out there is there another species of marlin the hatchet marlin out there these guys are saying what's it called a hatchet marlin they were saying it looks like a white but it doesn't look like a white but it looks a lot like a white marlin okay yeah and um what what happened around that time through genetic analyses and being able to go through kind of morphometrics you know looking at you know counts of different things

we were able to definitively determine that it was a different species that had been previously described, called round-scale spearfish.

The holotype, which is the first organism that I ever caught in catalog, actually burnt up, so they never had it.

And for a long time, scientists actually questioned the validity of that species, but through different techniques, primarily genetic, we were able to determine that they are indeed a valid species, and they look a hell of a lot like white marlin.

You can tell

a couple of different ways.

If you can look at the underside of the fish, the distance of the vent or the anus is well forward of the anal fin compared to Marlin's, you know, all spearfish are, you know, quite far forward.

And then also if you look at kind of the bony elements underneath the gill, you know, they're called branchiosticles, they go back a lot further.

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