Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 . Blue Marlin . To 5 m ( 16.4 ft ) TL (Heemstra in Smith and Heemstra 1986 ). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan , and off southern Kuril Islands ( Parin 2003 ); at least San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands, southern California (Pete Thomas, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Mejillones, Chile ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998 ), including southernmost Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015 ), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Oceanic; depth: near surface to 600 m ( 1,968 ft ) ( Hoolihan et al. 2009 ).