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I posted this already but...:ha:
Funniest video EVER - YouTube

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His producer is probably feeding him lines to spice things up for ratings.

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Where are the gate keepers when we need them

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Fishing under ice - YouTube

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Typical dalmatian fishing fleet


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Sweet rolled out tire bumper! :ha:

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Now showing Animal Planet River Monsters

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$736,000 for one fish, wow! The old record for most expensive fish was about $400,000 -- for another bluefin tuna. I always mention that figure when giving lectures about what fisheries and market economics can put fish at risk. As fish get rarer, the price goes up (supply and demand). So there is a pretty strong incentive to catch every last fish. Wouldn't you for a single fish worth nearly a million dollars?!

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Well hopefully this will help satiate those hungry people. Those surveyed could not tell the difference between farmed and wild caught. Only a few serious sushi eaters could tell them apart, and even they were ok with eating it.

Breeding the Overfished Bluefin Tuna | LiveScience

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Yes

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Unfortunately, I can't see farming saving bluefin. It may help a little. Even without it, if there were proper management, this could be a sustainable, lucrative fishery. This is a classic case of the fisheries scientists making good recommendations and the regulators ignoring them because of politics and greed. This isn't rocket science -- when you kill more fish per year than the population produces, that's not a sustainable fishery!

In general, farming of carnivorous fishes, like bluefin, is an inefficient proposition. You have to either catch or grow other animals to feed them. It would be like farming tigers rather than cows. Farming of fish that feed low on the food chain (herbivores and omnivores) makes sense in terms of maximizing animal protein production, farming carnivorous fish does not.

I love to eat carnivorous fishes -- from well managed, wild fisheries.

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According to Tommy Gomez @ Catalina Offshore Products our local Bluefin fishery is doing good. Do you agree?

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Yes, that's the current assessment.

Thunnus orientalis (Pacific Bluefin Tuna)

In contrast to Atlantic Bluefin, which is endangered.

Keep in mind our local bluefin fishery is for fish that migrate across the entire North Pacific to Japan. So it's not just what happens off our coast that is important: it's what happens to this species across the entire Pacific Ocean as it migrates annually. The good news about that record $700K fish is that it was one of these Pacific Bluefin, not an Atlantic one.

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Marituna
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We had some great striped bass fishin today no monsters but plenty of 25 to 30 pounders,biggest about 35. gettin crazy because in the same fishing area there are big bluefin tuna. we did not get a tuna bite today but many guys did.
down the coast in florida I had a friend catch 45 sailfish yesterday.

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45 pound Sailfish or 45 Sailfish?

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Are you surprised about 45 sailfish? How about 958 sails caught and released in a 3 day tournament!

Sailfish]sailfish - Florida Sportsman Jump To New Records at Palm Beach

And the really amazing thing is almost all fish were caught within 2 to 3 miles of the beach.

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Wow, yes I'm surprised!

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Hey Mark..

Record bluefin tuna price | SeaMonster

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Thanks Mitchel. Turns out I know the author of that as well as the expert interviewed. It's a small world.

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Too small for the big tunas.

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I wonder if I could raise a bluefin in a swimming pool ?

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You have a swimming pool?

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No pool but at that price for tuna it would be worth building one.

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I was thinking one of these .

Endless Pools Swim Spas, US Master Swimming Sponsor - YouTube

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It would get a good workout, but you'd have to feed it a lot of food!

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Even if that happened they'd still be fished to extinction. Creepy website that place!

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Nice perch!

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Just recently this happened.
Dead herring mystery for Norway as thousands wash up on beach | World news | guardian.co.uk

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:ha:

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You going tomorrow?

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Monday morning :woohoonaner:

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Where ya going?

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Mission Bay

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What size hook will you use?

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I'll be using a zarro spook with 3/0 stainless treble hooks. 10# stren fluorocarbon,7 1/2 ' pole and 300 series penn spinner. :08: