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500lb Tuna, Wales (1 Viewer)

Wow, thanks Andy.

At one stage, in the 30's, the rod world record for Tuna was caught off Scarborough, 851LBS!!, and the Tunny 'rod' fishing centre of the world was Sandgate, Scarborough (now a restaurant 'the tunny club'). The rules were rowing boat, single line, single rod, man against beast!

Sadly, with a change in the gulf stream Scarborough and Whitby have lost their warm currents and Tuna are only rarely seen or rumoured in the waters there.

In the book 'Tunny' they talk about 24 hours struggles against these fish and one guy being towed 4 miles. Incredible fish...
 
rosbifs said:
Wow, thanks Andy.

At one stage, in the 30's, the rod world record for Tuna was caught off Scarborough, 851LBS!!, and the Tunny 'rod' fishing centre of the world was Sandgate, Scarborough (now a restaurant 'the tunny club'). The rules were rowing boat, single line, single rod, man against beast!

Sadly, with a change in the gulf stream Scarborough and Whitby have lost their warm currents and Tuna are only rarely seen or rumoured in the waters there.

In the book 'Tunny' they talk about 24 hours struggles against these fish and one guy being towed 4 miles. Incredible fish...
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But how did / do they land such big fish without gaffing or other injury?


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rosbifs said:
Sadly, with a change in the gulf stream Scarborough and Whitby have lost their warm currents and Tuna are only rarely seen or rumoured in the waters there.
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Overfishing, not change in currents.

Those giant Tuna were probably very old (possibly centuries?), and it'd probably need that long again with a complete ban on catching for sizes like that to occur again.
 
Warm-blooded, intelligent, long-lived ...

More sport! (ok I know by-catch and admirably/correctly returned). Tuna and Lobsters - big shame tbh.

Seemingly record numbers in the SW aproaches this year
 
Bluefin tuna are actually very fast-growing so that large individuals are not necessarily very old. This also means that if the fishing pressure is reduced, the stock is able to recover quite quickly. This is what has happened in recent years and the northeast Atlantic stock is now increasing rapidly. This is likely to be a contributing factor to why they are reappearing in British waters with increasing frequency, although climate change is probably also an influence.

Nutcracker said:
Overfishing, not change in currents.

Those giant Tuna were probably very old (possibly centuries?), and it'd probably need that long again with a complete ban on catching for sizes like that to occur again.
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StuartReeves said:
Bluefin tuna are actually very fast-growing so that large individuals are not necessarily very old. This also means that if the fishing pressure is reduced, the stock is able to recover quite quickly. This is what has happened in recent years and the northeast Atlantic stock is now increasing rapidly. This is likely to be a contributing factor to why they are reappearing in British waters with increasing frequency, although climate change is probably also an influence.
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That may apply to the 226 kg one reported y'day, but does it also apply to the 400+ kg individual(s) from the 1930s? Most animals are fast-growing when young, but then slow down, and huge ones are likely to be ancient.
 
Nutcracker said:
That may apply to the 226 kg one reported y'day, but does it also apply to the 400+ kg individual(s) from the 1930s? Most animals are fast-growing when young, but then slow down, and huge ones are likely to be ancient.
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They reach 400kg at around 20 years, and the current recovery dates from management measures put in place around ten years ago. The most recently available information suggests they can live for around 40 years and grow up to about 725kg. More information here.
 
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