The bluefin tuna battle has been raging throughout the world as the demand cannot keep up with the supply. But the European fishing industry has set out to sea starting today in hopes of catching their quota of bluefin in the Mediterranean, and the European Union is on hand to make sure they stick to that [...]
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Shock and Awe in Panama! – Yellowfin Tuna Frenzy Video!!!
Wow! We just got back from an incredible two days on the TOP Cat here in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama. The Yellowfin Tunas right now are shit thick! We came across numerous parking lot sized boils of Tunas and Porpoises feeding on Blue Runners and Goggle Eyes the past two days. Check out this [...]
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Humans Have Been “Highly Skilled” at Fishing for 42,000 Years
It’s not surprise that fish was one of man’s first foods, but about 42,000 years ago was when we got really good at it. According to a recent release, finding more than 38,000 bones from almost 2,900 individual kinds of fish, the researchers have presented proof that humans of long ago possessed expertise at catching [...]
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Obsession Fishing Good Friday
We Fished with a makeup group today Kurt, Jeremy, Donnie, Kenny and Izzy. We left the dock at 7:00am we headed north . Seas were 2 to 4 ‘ to start and we worked our way about 3 miles to a large bird play . There were already boats on it. First stop [...]
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New Record Skipjack Tuna Landed in New Zealand?
We’re guessing that Nick Adams wished he had a bigger boat when he hooked into this tuna. Adams was trolling a rigged skipjack tuna off the coast of Houhora, New Zealand in a 21.5-foot boat on February 17, 2012, when he hooked into this enormous Pacific bluefin tuna. According to the IGFA’s Facebook page, after [...]
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Early Spring Cape Cod Striper Fishing Tips
It’s a great time of the year to be on Cape Cod! May is right around the corner, the stripers are here, and true cows are just to the south of us. I still have some land-based work to take care of this week, but I plan on hitting the water hard starting on Tuesday. [...]
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More About the Fish Whole Foods Won’t Sell
Thanks so much to Discovery.com for posting a great slide show highlighting the fish that Whole Foods now declines to sell because of sustainability issues. Please click here to see the show at DiscoveryNews. And thank you, Whole Foods. FYI: Also on the list in addition to trawl-caught Cod: Atlantic halibut, octopus, imported wild shrimp, [...]
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1000+ pound tuna on Wicked Tuna last night
I didn’t watch the entire show because it got pretty tedious after Kevin caught his monster tuna. I’ve also been a little uncomfortable with the show given the plight of bluefin tuna. Carl Safina at The Huffington Post feels the same way and wrote the interesting wrote this interesting reflection on the show and tuna [...]
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Whole Foods gets Holier Than Thou. Good for Whole Foods.
The upscale grocery chain, Whole Foods, recently moved up a decision to buy only seafood for its stores that meet the sustainability criteria of groups like the the Blue Ocean Institute, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, and the Marine Stewardship Council. That’s tough news for New England commercial fishermen, who are amongst Whole Food’s biggest [...]
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Review: Al Gag’s Custom Lures Whip-It Eel
Massachusetts lure-maker Al Gag sent me some of his new Whip-It Eels to field-test along Florida’s Big Bend coast and I’ve been anxiously waiting for the opportunity. That came yesterday when I spotted a nice cobia doing laps around a channel marker. I had an olive green 6-inch tail with one of his eel jig [...]
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