Tag Archives: bluefin tuna

TUNA: Stalking A Maybe

The picture above is grainy but it illustrates the reason why grown men leave home at 3:30 in the morning to be on the water at first light when it’s a cutting 36 degrees, with no respite on an open … Continue reading

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Winter Blues

Unrelated email conversations with Jeremy of Flies and Fins and Michael Gracie of, well, Michael Gracie, brought back the memories of a trip that constituted four days of uninterrupted awesomeness.  I haven’t gotten to play the tuna game since that … Continue reading

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Striper Recap

Every year I participate in a bluefin tuna expedition organized by Jeremy Cameron of Flies and Fins. This year the tuna didn’t show but we put it together on stripers and the recap, plus video, is up on Flies and … Continue reading

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VIDEO: Bluefin Maul Bait Ball

Underwater footage from National Geographic.

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Bluefin Love Story

Below is an interesting NPR podcast with Richard Ellis, author of Tuna: A Love Story. NPR PODCAST: Can the bluefin tuna be saved? Quote: “The tuna is better at what it does than what MIT could possibly create.” (Thanks to NH … Continue reading

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Is the Bluefin Tuna Doomed?

The people in charge of protecting it seem to doing their best to drive bluefin to extinction. Read this article by noted marine biologist Carl Safina on Yale  e360. Money Quote: A 43-nation commission has public-trust management authority and a … Continue reading

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Tuna Migration

Atlantic bluefin tuna are bicoastal, and paying for it.

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