records of swordfish are known only from the Pliocene of Italy (where a nearly complete fossil skeleton is known) and North Carolina, US.

Description

They commonly reach 3 m in length, and the maximum reported is 4.55 m in length and 682 kg in weight. The International Game Fish Association's all-tackle angling record for a swordfish was a 1182 lb specimen taken off Chile in 1953. Females are larger than

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