: any of a family (Belonidae) of elongate carnivorous chiefly marine bony fishes that are silvery with blue or green backs and have long slender jaws and sharp teeth
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Blue Hole even provides a home for some salt-water fish, such as tarpon and needlefish, which arrived thanks to flooding during Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Don’t feed the animals
Even with all the other attractions, the Key deer remains king here.—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 16 Jan. 2025 The swordfish lives at mid-level depths, while needlefish are found closer to the surface.—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024 Swordfish and needlefish can both leap out of the water, and both have sharp bills that can puncture skin and cause harm.—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024 An Italian surfer died last week after being impaled by a needlefish in the waters off Masokut Island in Indonesia.—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024 Lures with frantic actions send out lots of vibrations through the water, but the needlefish does the opposite.—Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023 Something straightforward like sardines in olive oil, or silvery needlefish for a close variation, sets a benchmark.—Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023 Blue runners, mangrove snappers, grunts, needlefish and Bermuda chub were all biting.—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022 Two needlefish jetted from the water and nearly landed in the cockpit.—Porter Fox, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
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