The tuna that Rich Kosztyu, Brian Suschke and Damien Romeo hauled onto Romeo's boat last summer at a Maryland fishing tournament weighed 236.5 pounds.

At the time, it earned them a staggering $767,091 at the White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Md.

Eleven months later, after legal wrangling and a trial in federal court in Baltimore, the fishermen friends are getting another $2 million for the catch.

Court documents filed in the case - which wrapped last month with a judge stripping a Florida fisherman of his $2.8M top prize - lay out how the prize money will be divvied up among the remaining winners.

Kosztyu, who's listed as the winning angler, will get $2,025,046. The tournament is getting $340,000 from the prize pot for their legal fees, the agreement says.

Twelve other winning anglers will get prizes ranging from $1,861 to $233,003. A federal judge still has to sign to agreement.

"We are relieved to finally put this behind us; it has been a long 11 months of anxiety, stress and long late night phone conversations," Suschke said, speaking also for his fishing buddies.

"It really is a bittersweet moment for us. It is unfortunate it went down the way it did. We do not fish for a living, we do it for the love of fishing," he said.

Suschke, though, said they take tournament fishing very seriously.

As does the tournament.

Shortly after the White Marlin - the world's largest billfish tournament - wrapped up last August, tournament officials announced that the top winner, Phillip Heasley of Naples. Fla. and the crew of his boat, the Kallianassa, may have violated tournament rules in the white marlin category.

Heasley and the Kallianassa had caught the sole qualifying fish in the category.

The case eventually moved to federal court, where last month a judge found Heasley and his crew put their fishing lines in too early, violating the White Marlin rules, and failed polygraph tests about it - which the tournament administers to anglers who win more that $50,000.

On Thursday, White Marlin Open President Jim Motsko said of the agreement, to Delmarvanow.com: "We always try to do what's best and correct, and this was the correct thing to do under all the circumstances. We follow our rules and we reward those who follow our rules."

Suschke, a Trenton police sergeant, and Kosztyu, a Trenton firefighter, and Romeo, from Lacey, will be back at White Marlin Open in August.

"Putting this behind us couldn't happened at a better time as we start our tournament season next week and we are hoping karma will be on our side leading us back to the scales," he said.

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