Sport fishing is fishing for pleasure or competition.The most common form of recreational fishing is done with a rod, reel, line, hooks and any one of a wide range of baits. The most common salt water game fish are marlin, tuna, tarpon, sailfish, shark, and mackerel.
In order to protect recreational fisheries sport fishermen now often catch and release, and sometimes tag and release, which involves fitting the fish with identity tags, recording vital statistics, and sending a record to a government agency.
The Postal Administrative of Ascension Island has issued a stamp series consist of four single stamps feature sport fishing jacks, Black Jack (Caranx lugubris), Almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana), Horse-eye jack (Caranx latus), Rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata). The First Day Cover have presented picture of three sport-fishermen and the Cancellation postmark figured a jack fish with black colour dated January 24, 2006.
