Or take this swordfish.

You know, a marlin is a swordfish.

Not to be outdone, the fisherman gave Frank a big swordfish.

As a result, much of the swordfish caught is classified as so called bycatch. According to Crowder and Myers, swordfish is such a common catch on tuna targeted trips that about 50 percent of the total swordfish catch is taken as bycatch, not as targeted catch.

As a result, the price for swordfish has been declining because the market is flooded by swordfish from the Caribbean, South America, Australia, Canada, Spain and the Western Pacific.

In fact, 48 percent of the swordfish vessels lost money that year.

It is estimated that more swordfish is caught by tuna longlines in the Pacific than longlines targeting swordfish and that such bycatch amounts to about 25 percent of the global catch.

Case concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of Swordfish Stocks (Chile European Community)

In fact, the swordfish caught by the world's leading swordfish harvesters Japan and Taiwan is primarily bycatch from tuna fisheries. In effect, the value of the bycatch fish may exceed the targeted fish.

Of California's 90 seafood processors in 1995, only five processed significant quantities of swordfish.

Tuna and swordfish fisheries are especially petroleum hungry, with energy consumption three times the average.

And in the Mediterranean, in the swordfish net fisheries, they make up up to 90 percent.

As awareness grows, levels of consumption of large predatory fish such as tuna and swordfish are dropping.

So far, the swordfish case is the only one to have been submitted to an ad hoc chamber.

Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish they've collapsed.

Check out the supermarket orange juice from China, nuts from India, swordfish from Japan, lagers from Czechoslovakia, scores of European cheeses.

The mercury content of tuna, swordfish, orange roughy and similar fish now poses a health risk, particularly to women of childbearing age.

Among the fisheries with the most inefficient edible protein return on investment, vessels targeting shrimp, tuna and swordfish are at the top of the list.

The swordfish fishery was closed and the tuna fishery subject to time area closures due to high levels of sea turtle and sea bird bycatch.

Overall, longline vessels targeting swordfish had the lowest average annual profit, 11,000, while longline vessels targeting tuna and mixed species earned 20,000 and 47,000 per year, respectively.

This is true even in southern California, where the bulk of the industrial longline vessels were located until the Hawaiian swordfish longline fishery was reopened in spring 2004.

The next time you dine on sushi or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean think of the real cost.

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

The next time you dine on sushi or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean think of the real cost.

41. It has been reported that Italian swordfish drift net vessels continued to use large scale drift nets in excess of the 2.5 km limit specified by EC regulation 345 92.

For the past several months, the northern region of Rif has seen protests following the death of Mohcine Fikri, a fisherman who was crushed in a truck after his swordfish was seized by the police.

Methyl mercury bio accumulates up the marine food chain to create high concentrations in predatory species of fish such as shark, swordfish and tuna, as well as marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

There has been an ongoing conflict between Chile and the European Union since 2000, when the Chilean government closed its waters to Spanish industrial longline vessels that had depleted Chile's swordfish stocks and depressed take by local fishers.

In the Case concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of Swordfish Stocks in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean, a case which is still pending on the docket, Chile and the European Community have taken advantage of the ad hoc system.

By Order dated 20 December 2000, the Tribunal formed a Special Chamber of five judges to deal with a dispute between Chile and the European Community concerning the conservation and sustainable exploitation of swordfish stocks in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Following an agreement between Chile and the European Community, the Tribunal, by Order dated 20 December 2000, formed a Special Chamber to deal with a dispute between Chile and the European Community concerning the conservation and sustainable exploitation of swordfish stocks.

In March l988, the Fisheries Development Officer of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States secretariat pointed out that more than 20 foreign fishing vessels were operating in the eastern Caribbean, most of them illegally, taking nearly 5,500 kilograms of swordfish from the area every week.

The warning advised that expectant, pregnant and nursing women and children should not eat any shark, swordfish or king mackerel due to high mercury levels. The advisory also included a caveat that women should eat no more than 12 ounces of light tuna a week and no more than six ounces a week of white tuna.