I am a Sport fisherman and I was appalled when in the Hawaii episode they gaffed and killed that stripped marlin. Real sport fisherman understand how important it is to release marlin. They are not good eating, and their numbers are dwindling.
The Discovery Channel and producers of the show should have made it clear, and insisted, that any marlin caught are to be released. It would have been a better legacy, more sportsman like, and just down right the RIGHT thing to do to release the marlin.
What lousy example of sportsmanship that episode portrayed.