The White Marlin Open in OCMD each August brings yachts from all over. A few years ago the “winner” of the white marlin class was found to have cheated and was disqualified. Other fishermen had seen that boat jump the gun and start before the official start time. He lost a prize of over $1 Million. This summer the winning white marlin won $1.4 Million, IIRC. Two years ago a guy caught an 804 lb. BLUE Marlin. He won over $100,000. for that. I forget the exact figger. White Marlin win the highest prizes because they are more rare than blues.
Long time ago I went on a party boat to fish for fluke. Guy who won the pool stuffed weights into the fish. He got caught and the first mate offered to either beat the crap out of him or he goes overboard and swims to shore. He jumped. Was pretty close to the beach so he didn’t have much of a swim. But he lost all his gear as it was tossed in also.