Hernandez was present at the Robert Reimers Enterprises Shoreline Dock to handle the weigh-in and confirm the blue marlin’s weight. The previous record in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was a 941-pound marlin caught in 2012 by Saipan angler Mike James. “I felt excited when he pulled up to the dock with the fish tied up alongside his boat,” Kyle Aliven, a brother, told USA Today/For The Win Outdoors. “He’s doing well for himself, and he is putting Marshall Islands Big Game Fishing on the map. “His 946-pounder proved that there’s big fish in our waters, despite commercial purse seiners and long-line commercial fishing within our waters.”