Fish was 20,000 miles from home

Tehran - A game fish from California, a marlin, has been caught by an Iranian fisherman in the Gulf, Iran's Fisheries Research…

Tehran - A game fish from California, a marlin, has been caught by an Iranian fisherman in the Gulf, Iran's Fisheries Research Centre said yesterday. A tag on its fin indicated the 35kg, 1.78m-long game fish, caught off the Gulf coast port of Bushehr, had swum 32,000km (20,000 miles) from California.

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