A giant blue marlin was Santiagos noble adversary in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and is the big game fish most prominent in many anglers dreams. They range worldwide in the temperate and tropical latitudes, extended northward or southward by seasonal shifts in major currents such as the Gulf Stream. Blue marlin are fished commercially on the open ocean with baited longlines and taken incidentally in gillnets, though no United States fleet targets them. In the Atlantic, US commercial fishing vessels are prohibited from possessing blue marlin. The world records for blue marlin are 1,376 pounds set off Kona, Hawaii, for the Pacific and 1,282 pounds set off the Virgin Islands on the Atlantic.