Jarhead

I'm not trash talking, by any means. I'm on here to learn as much as I can from some of you more experienced fishermen, and I've learned a lot in a short period of time. I was just wondering. I have a buddy that's a sailfish junky. It's like crack for this guy. He fishes for nothing else and he showed me some pics of the ones he caught but they were all over the side of his boat with the fish still in the water. I didn't think to ask him because I didn't have a boat at the time and all I knew about offshore fishing was snapper and grouper. Now, these pics are on the boat and looking like they're going in the cooler. Until recently, I thought it was illegal to keep them or a cardinal sin for fishermen.