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Story: Recreational sea fishing

Fighting fins

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This clip is from the 1951 New Zealand National Film unit documentary Fighting fins. It features a striped marlin jumping clear of the water.

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Reference: Fighting Fins. National Film Unit, 1951

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Carl Walrond, Recreational sea fishing – Big-game fishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/7820/fighting-fins (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.