Reversal of Fishy Court Opinion Gives Boat Crew Another Chance to Reel in a Million-Dollar Prize

Apr 5, 2013

By Robert Freeman of Proskauer   When the crewmembers of the fishing boat, the Citation, finally hand-lined aboard a record-setting 883-pound, 14-foot-long blue marlin after a three-hour long battle in federal waters off the coast of North Carolina, it was as if they had hauled in a waterlogged treasure chest filled with over $900,000—the first place prize of the 2010 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in which they were competing.   No other fish caught in the tournament came close. An
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