Is this right or wrong?

[lightenup]

What do you think..should this guy be able to keep the fish because it is already dead? Or will that create people purposely by accident catching and killing these things........

Along with monstrous tuna, fisherman sees giant payday slip away

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[Trout Nazi]

Throwing away a dead fish like that is a waste, not matter how you look at it or what the law says. At they very least, that dude and his fellow villagers could have been eating prime tuna for a while.

 

[dcabarle]

What do you think..should this guy be able to keep the fish because it is already dead? Or will that create people purposely by accident catching and killing these things........

Along with monstrous tuna, fisherman sees giant payday slip away

I don't know how to make a link..so copy and paste. I guess it made the link automatically..sweet!

Just think of the meals you could have made with that!

It's too bad they had to throw it back. There is a valid point though. How many people will start catching these things and killing them by accident?

 

[WBDluver]

1. kill everyone on board and throw their bodies overboard
2. motor to japan

 

[Trout Nazi]

Gotta think that these are not the easiest things in the world to catch, or else Newfoundland would be filled with rich fisherman rolling in Donzi speedboats, no?

 

[Trouser Trout]

The article only states that "they were ordered to leave the Tuna in the ocean", and "Bluefin caught out of season, even incidentally, must be thrown back". The article never says the fish was put back or what happened to it. Think about it..... I would have to think that someone, somehow, claimed that fish. It is worth entirely too much to become shark chum.

 

[lightenup]

The article only states that "they were ordered to leave the Tuna in the ocean", and "Bluefin caught out of season, even incidentally, must be thrown back". The article never says the fish was put back or what happened to it. Think about it..... I would have to think that someone, somehow, claimed that fish. It is worth entirely too much to become shark chum.

Agreed T.T.,no way they let 500 grand slip off the gunnel..........

 

[tompg]

I wonder what the fine would have been

 

[BrownChickenBrownTrout]

Anyone ever see South Park, "oh my god it's coming right at me!!".....

I think the laws correct on this one. Blue fin tuna will be extinct functionally at the rate fishing is going. With so much value for one fish poaching becomes economically attractive.

Now in Alaska when dangerous or nuisance animals are shot or killed the meat is harvested for charity. That's what they should have done. Could you imagine fresh toro at the soup kitchen?

 

[lightenup]

Anyone ever see South Park, "oh my god it's coming right at me!!".....

I think the laws correct on this one. Blue fin tuna will be extinct functionally at the rate fishing is going. With so much value for one fish poaching becomes economically attractive.

Now in Alaska when dangerous or nuisance animals are shot or killed the meat is harvested for charity. That's what they should have done. Could you imagine fresh toro at the soup kitchen?

That's a great idea, and it would make the fishermen fell all warm and fuzzy inside too....

 

[Joe D]

It's a shame such a spectacular fish died for naught, but if they let it be kept, I wonder how many more "accidental" landings there would be. To put it on a recreational level, it would be like allowing any accidentally snagged salmon, steelhead, trout or whatever to be kept. We could be pretty certain the number of "accidents" would increase.

 

[Trouser Trout]

It's a shame such a spectacular fish died for naught, but if they let it be kept, I wonder how many more "accidental" landings there would be. To put it on a recreational level, it would be like allowing any accidentally snagged salmon, steelhead, trout or whatever to be kept. We could be pretty certain the number of "accidents" would increase.

Don't kid yourself into thinking it died for naught, I can't believe or even imagine that a fish that was worth 100's of thousands of dollars was simply thrown back and totally discarded....... No way......

 

[Joe D]

The 100's of thousands that you read about in the media for a tuna is always for a fish caught in Japanese waters and is sold at auction in Tokyo to either a Tokyo sushi chain or one in Hong Kong. The restaurants get a lot of world wide publicity for the stunt of grossly overpaying, though they probably pass the cost to their customers like a steak off a blue ribbon winning auctioned steer. They attract customers to their restaurants who just want to taste what such an expensive slice of tuna is like.

In 2010 a 310 pound dressed bluefin returned to the fishermen about $2,879.00 before expenses. At the same auction where the record breaking $730K fish sold last season ($1,200 p/lb) other tuna sold for between $6 and $15 per pound.

The fish in discussion wasn't worth 100's of thousands.

 

[Trouser Trout]

The 100's of thousands that you read about in the media for a tuna is always for a fish caught in Japanese waters and is sold at auction in Tokyo to either a Tokyo sushi chain or one in Hong Kong. The restaurants get a lot of world wide publicity for the stunt of grossly overpaying, though they probably pass the cost to their customers like a steak off a blue ribbon winning auctioned steer. They attract customers to their restaurants who just want to taste what such an expensive slice of tuna is like.

In 2010 a 310 pound dressed bluefin returned to the fishermen about $2,879.00 before expenses. At the same auction where the record breaking $730K fish sold last season ($1,200 p/lb) other tuna sold for between $6 and $15 per pound.

The fish in discussion wasn't worth 100's of thousands.

Thanks for that comment Joe, those numbers did seam crazy to me...... I still don't believe anyone abandoned that fish...... You keep making sense like that I may even book a trip with your sorry ass.