Sailfish

A woman fishing in Florida was stabbed and injured by the bill of a sailfish after it leapt out of the water and struck her, authorities said.

Her condition wasn't reported. "The sailfish jumped out of the water and stabbed Katherine in the groin area while she was standing next to the center console" of the fishing boat, the sheriff’s office said. A 100-pound sailfish jumped out of the water off the coast of Florida and stabbed a 73-year-old woman as her fellow fishermen were attempting to reel it in.

Katherine Perkins, 70, was standing in a boat when the sailfish leaped out of the water and stabbed her.

They can grow up to 11-feet-long and weigh up to 220 pounds, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The other two passengers, Louis Toth and Dominic Bellezza, said the sailfish appeared to be charging the boat before it jumped out of the water and stabbed Perkins. She was later taken to a local medical hospital.

Katherine Perkins, 70, was trying to reel in the sailfish on a fishing line when it leaped out of the water and struck her, authorities say.

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A 100lb sailfish stabbed a 70-year-old woman after it leapt out of the water off the Florida coast.

Sailfish are among the fastest fish species in the ocean, and are one of the most wanted in the sport fishing world. They applied pressure to Ms Perkins’ wound and rushed her to Stuart for medical treatment. Her companions Louis Toth and Dominic Bellezza were trying to reel it in on a fishing line when it suddenly jumped up onto their boat.

The sailfish jumped out of the water and impaled the Maryland woman off the coast of Florida as a man was trying to reel it onto the boat, officials said.

Rescuers tended to the woman, and she was flown to a hospital. It then jumped out of the water and stabbed the woman in the groin area with its bill while she was standing near the boat’s center console, according to the sheriff’s office. The woman from Arnold, Maryland, was 2 miles offshore on a boat with two men, one of whom was trying to reel in a sailfish he had on a line, according to a report from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

The sailfish jumped out of the water and impaled the Maryland woman off the coast of Florida as a man was trying to reel it onto the boat, officials said.

Rescuers tended to the woman, and she was flown to a hospital. It then jumped out of the water and stabbed the woman in the groin area with its bill while she was standing near the boat’s center console, according to the sheriff’s office. A 73-year-old woman was impaled by a sailfish that jumped out of the water while charging the boat she was on, officials in Florida said.

The fish impaled Katherine Perkins, of Maryland , in the groin area with its pointed bill on Tuesday while she was standing in the boat as two companions ...

Like the swordfish, sailfish are recognizable by their extended, pointed bills. Perkins and her friends were in a boat two miles off the shore of Stuart - a coastal town north of West Palm Beach that is regarded as the sailfish capital of the world - when they caught the 100-pound sailfish. Perkins and her friends were in a boat off near Stuart, a coastal town north of West Palm Beach that is regarded as the sailfish capital of the world, when they caught the 100-pound sailfish (file photo)

The sailfish jumped out of the water and impaled the Maryland woman off the coast of Florida as a man was trying to reel it onto the boat, officials said.

Rescuers tended to the woman, and she was flown to a hospital. It then jumped out of the water and stabbed the woman in the groin area with its bill while she was standing near the boat’s center console, according to the sheriff’s office. A 73-year-old woman was impaled by a sailfish that jumped out of the water while charging the boat she was on, officials in Florida said.