# @outdoor_life on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLOV1FbM8nj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31707109-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-23T01:00:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

"This is a first, a real once-in-a-lifetime event.”⁠
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Anglers aboard the Florida boat Nikki Bella caught the marlin just before nightfall on May 29 off Venice, Louisiana, not knowing that a small, tagged tuna had been eaten earlier by the billfish. When the marlin was inspected by researchers, they discovered the mostly-digested 22-inch juvenile yellowfin tuna that had been tagged and released about a month previously by the University of the Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.⁠
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Tap the link in profile for the full story 🔗⁠
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#fishing #fishingtrip #fishingseason #mississippi #marlin #marlinfishing #tuna #tunafishing #outdoors #outdoorlife⁠
📷: Mark Padgett⁠
Story by: Bob McNally

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## Tags

outdoors, mississippi, tuna, fishing, marlin, fishingseason, outdoorlife, fishingtrip, tunafishing, marlinfishing

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