Blue Fin Tuna take

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    I can't support killing bluefin under any circumstances.


    O2deprived does your statement cover all tuna: Pacific, Southern, big eye and long fins ( albacore)
    or just the Northern Blue fin giants ? How do you feel about farm raised tuna ?


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

    I just know that the Blue Fin tuna population is on the verge of collapse due to over-fishing. This did not happen because of any of us shooting a prize fish but we have to let what few remain breed and multiply.The Japanese consume the largest percentage of bluefin
    I try to follow the guidelines of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
    http://www.montereybayaquarium…=JTRsYWKpW4l0iwjBtDO4Nw==
    you can get the list from this site. Some of the fish are 'red listed' due to their mercury content and/or the way they are caught( longline). When I buy fish I look for country of origin( good fishing practices) , harpooned swordfish rather than longlined ,shrimp caught without killing turtles etc.
    Environmentally, fish farming only works in some species thus far ( tilapia, catfish,steelhead). Many farming practices( salmon) infect the wild population with disease and inferior genetics.Those tuna pens have not been successful. I think in time we will work these things out- at least I hope so.

    I understand that attention needs to be drawn to the bluefin tuna problem, but you shouldn't have done it on a spearfisheman's thread on a spearfishing board as he's sharing a great achievement.


    How many tuna are taken each year by spearfishermen? What percentage is this of the total tuna take? I'm guessing it's minuscule. Does it make sense that if one method of fishing, in this case long lining is really the culprit, that other methods of fishing suffer the consequences? Why should spearfishermen restrict themselves from taking tuna in the most sporting way there is?


    Anyways I don't think relying on people's good will is going to achieve anything. If long lining or whatever method of take is most effective is not going to be restricted or outlawed, the only thing that will stop targeting the tuna is when there's not enough of them to make it profitable for the fisherman to be out there trying to catch them. Whether at this point there will be enough of them left to repopulate I don't know.

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    Environmentally, fish farming only works in some species thus far ( tilapia, catfish,steelhead). Many farming practices( salmon) infect the wild population with disease and inferior genetics.Those tuna pens have not been successful. I think in time we will work these things out- at least I hope so.


    Most of the Blue Fin tuna in pens come from the wild and are only in the pen to gain weight and fat content. Recently As the world's love affair with raw fish depletes wild tuna populations, long-running efforts to breed the deep-sea fish from egg to adulthood may finally be bearing fruit.


    By the end of this year, an Australian company says it will begin selling small amounts of southern bluefin tuna hatched in its fishery. A Japanese firm breeding the more prized Pacific bluefin tuna hopes to start sales in 2013 and ship 10,000 fish by 2015.

    I am fish subsistence hunter that does not buy any fish from a store, I do not rely on any net or commercial fishing process to put meat on the table for me or my guests.I don't even buy it in restaurants. I do agree that Northern Blue Fin quotas were a joke for many years but I have no problem harvesting pacific blue fin by shaft in my local waters, and no Perch or Sargo have ever been harmed by my spear or in the writing of this post.:D;)


    I do completely respect your opinion though and personal choices.


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

    just to chime in a buddy of mine with florida institute of technology is in vero doin his grad work raising cobia and spent the summer in PR working with mariculturing tuna.. he claims theyre making great strides,, and this is my surf partner in cocoa beach from the time we were youngins and my wingman all through hiighschool,,so im kinda inclined to believe him.. hes also a major skeptic when it comes to envvironmental issues which makes me further believe him.


    p.s hes a horrible spearfisher though.. haus witnessed it

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    just to chime in a buddy of mine with florida institute of technology is in vero doin his grad work raising cobia and spent the summer in PR working with mariculturing tuna.. he claims theyre making great strides,, and this is my surf partner in cocoa beach from the time we were youngins and my wingman all through hiighschool,,so im kinda inclined to believe him.. hes also a major skeptic when it comes to envvironmental issues which makes me further believe him.


    p.s hes a horrible spearfisher though.. haus witnessed it


    :laughing3:
    yes- we have had huge success here in California raising our highly sought after, white sea bass.I've done some volunteering at the hatchery. It hasn't helped me shoot one, though :D


    I sincerely hope we can work all these sustainability issues out so we can continue to eat and hunt fish. In the meantime, we need to be responsible ambassadors for our sport and take species with strong populations and eat what we kill.

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    I sincerely hope we can work all these sustainability issues out so we can continue to eat and hunt fish. In the meantime, we need to be responsible ambassadors for our sport and take species with strong populations and eat what we kill.


    Good points.

    It's vintage. I found the narration soothing.


    Here's the answer to my question.

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    the fishermen cast feathered jigs into the water and haul them back systematically a few seconds later. When fish are larger than 8-15 kg, double poling may be necessary. If a tuna is caught, the movements is prolonged and the tuna lands on the vessel's deck where it releases itself from the hook (because it is barbless). The line is then ready to be thrown again

    It is funny I guess. I am not a proponent of huge catches like that. I don't begrudge anyone who makes their living from the sea, but I don't really like to buy seafood. I mean, I can go get it. I find that my drive to kill or take more really evaporates when I have a few decent fish. I typically use a bucket on my shore dice and if I had three fish in it, it is getting crowded and I start using the camera more.


    To me, there is more to fishing and harvesting fromthe ocean than simply "winning" and getting all you can until your boat can't stay on keel:@


    The video is quite incredible but it is so efficient that it is almost mechanical and that is off to me. No longer any sport to it

    i like to spear fish

    There is something great about chasing and landing a Titanic fish armed with just a spear. That´s the true spirit of conservation. We cannot survive without killing our true brothers, but at least, spearfishing is a glorius attempt at inmortality. That means that feat will be always remembered as something venerable and generous, in the sense that the spearman was offering his own life if need be to land the fish. That´s the true spirit of what Hemmingway´s wanted to convey through written prose in " The Old man and the Sea" Quote needed here: " .. :)

    I'm a Speardiver, not a freediver

    Aaand, heeeeeere it is: :)


    "...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers... "

    I'm a Speardiver, not a freediver

    Stay tuned, I may may be witting O2 deprived a apology after I have more impute...:(


    Don Paul

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

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