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Sailfish Pictures Showing This Fish with a Distinctive Sail-Like Fin |
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Sailfish grow quickly, reaching five feet long in a year, and can grow to be 10 foot long and weigh up to 200 pounds. The largest fish are usually females. They spawn during the summer months, with the females swimming through shallow water with their dorsal fin above the water surface. One or two males will swim along side and spawn near the surface. A female may release as many as four million eggs. Hatchlings are only .125 inches long. By the time they are eight inches long they have all the characteristics of an adult, including the sail and the elongated jaw.
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Picture of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, lit up with bright blue markings that indicate excitement, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 035923 |
Image of a Pacific sailfish, albino, Istiophorus platypterus, being brought aboard sportfishing boat, Guatemala, East Pacific
Image #: 024269 |
Stock photo of pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, lit up with bright blue markings that indicate excitement, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 035925 |
Photo of a Pacific sailfish, albino, Istiophorus platypterus, being brought aboard sportfishing boat, Guatemala, East Pacific
Image #: 024270 |
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Picture of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, attacking bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea, as a member of a cooperative hunting group, sailfish is lit up with bright colors only seen in excited animals
Image #: 036198 |
Image of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, seizes sardine from bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 036196 |
Stock photo of pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, attacking bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea; sailfish in foreground targets an individual sardine that has been separated from the school
Image #: 036205 |
Photo of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans,attacking bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea, as a member of a cooperative hunting group, sailfish is lit up with bright colors only seen in excited animals
Image #: 036197 |
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Picture of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, investigating a teaser bait Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 035926 |
Image of an Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, La Guaira Bank, Venezuela, Caribbean c-r
Image #: 031502 |
Stock photo of Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, using a cooperative hunting strategy to herd sardines into a baitball for easier feeding, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 035921 |
Photo of an Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, Caribbean, feeding on sardine bait ball, and diver, photographer
Image #: 069791 |
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Picture of a Pacific sailfish, albino, Istiophorus platypterus, being brought aboard sportfishing boat, Guatemala, East Pacific
Image #: 024271 |
Image of pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, hunting sardines, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 036204 |
Stock photo of a pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans,attacking bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea, as a member of a cooperative hunting group, sailfish is lit up with bright colors only seen in excited animals
Image #: 036199 |
Photo of pelagic Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans, swiping its bill downward and pulling air down from the surface, seizes an individual sardine separated from a bait ball of Spanish sardines, Sardinella aurita, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 036206 |
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