Giant Tuna 233kg

[iggy]

By SHINO YUASA, Associated Press Writer Shino Yuasa, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 5, 6:28 am ET

TOKYO – A giant bluefin tuna fetched 16.3 million yen ($177,000) in an auction Tuesday at the world's largest wholesale fish market in Japan.

The 513-pound (233-kilogram) fish was the priciest since 2001 when a 440-pound (200 kilogram) tuna sold for a record 20.2 million yen ($220,000) at Tokyo's Tsukiji market.

The gargantuan tuna was bought and shared by the owners of two Japanese sushi restaurants and one Hong Kong-based sushi establishment, said a market representative on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

Caught off the coast of northern Japan, the big tuna was among 570 put up for auction Tuesday. About 40 percent of the auctioned fish came from abroad, including from Indonesia and Mexico, the representative said.

 

[roland]

saw on the news last night. lots of fish

 

[Slickster]

Are we even allowed to take bluefin tuna here in South African waters?

 

[iggy]

Slickster wrote:

Are we even allowed to take bluefin tuna here in South African waters?

Why? you looking to sell some in JAPAN....

 

[MouseDog]

ROLAND, are you in, on Friday we take the duck and we go to Japan while we cross-troll the Atlantic, I have to be back at work on Monday at 7, so we won't have a lot of time in Tokyo for a big party

 

[Kosi Fisher]

Slickster wrote:

Are we even allowed to take bluefin tuna here in South African waters?

I caught one of these monsters at spring low tide off Macassar on my shad stick and coffee grinder last week, but being a conservation-minded angler, put it back with an ORI tag sticking from it...

Oh dammit....there goes my April's Fools Day gag... 

Personally, on a serious note, I believe there should be a worldwide ban on the taking of the blu tuna, but like with whales, the Japanese will find a way of killing them for "research" purposes...

 

[jb2]

Slickster wrote:

Are we even allowed to take bluefin tuna here in South African waters?

Yup!

Recreational bag: 10 per person per day.

Given the average mass that should put you onto a ton of fish a day per man.

 

 

[wp34]

Japenese/Chinese will eat anything from the ocean except for submarines , anything from the sky except for aeroplanes and anything with legs, except for tables and chairs.

 

[rob billimore]

We do not catch Bluefin in our waters anymore. Now and then a lost fish will be caught by our Tuna longline fleet, but they pretty much dissapeared in the 60's already. Imagine that price for some of the fish caught in Fish Hoek Bay those years back..........without research I think the SA record was about 786 Lb, by Brian Cohen ??

 

[Nemesis]

So True Wp34,so True,watched the documentary on Discovery a while ago,called Taboo,felt so swaak for those poor dogsThe A-Holes will one day deplete all Tuna stock and drive Whales/Sharks to extinction just to full their stomach!Thats for sure!

 

[Trophy]

wp34 wrote:

Japenese/Chinese will eat anything from the ocean except for submarines , anything from the sky except for aeroplanes and anything with legs, except for tables and chairs.

Hiya wp34,

You must actually go over there are see what these chaps eat...crazy!

I spent an evening at an night market and took about 100 photos of the madness. Everything that walks,hops, crawls, slithers, swims...or just breaths is cooked and presented.

Crazy stuff!

 

[wp34]

Frekking Perlemoen smugglers!!!

 

[iggy]

wp34 wrote:

Frekking Perlemoen smugglers!!!

Don't forget the Frekking Rhino Horn....

 

[Trophy]

wp34 wrote:

Frekking Perlemoen smugglers!!!

Yip saw load of that too!

They have these 'herbal' type shops on every corner. Every one had glass jars of sun dried perlemoen on offer.

I'm trying to recall, but i think it was sold for about 100$ US for 100g!

Tried taking pics in these shops, but the owners immediatley became very aggressive and would not let me snap away. They know the legal issues and are very aware of the damage the trade causes world over!

BUGGERS!

 

[wp34]

Was  offered R500 for a small bronzie once on Strandfontein by Jackie Chan , could have been Bruce Lee, they ll look the same anyway. He was driving a white Navarra and had a henchman with him. Politely told him to ^%$(&#%&* right off!!!

 

[Trophy]

Ha Ha!

I used to fish CT harbour alot years ago, the breakwater that faces onto Milnerton and where all the fishing trawlers moor.

These fellas used to watch me fish for hours on end and every time I reeled in with a fish they used to stand up and charge at me like I was made of gold.

Everything I caught was up for auction and debate. I could have made a fortune selling mullets and rock ballies!

 

[jb2]

rob billimore wrote:

We do not catch Bluefin in our waters anymore. Now and then a lost fish will be caught by our Tuna longline fleet, but they pretty much dissapeared in the 60's already. Imagine that price for some of the fish caught in Fish Hoek Bay those years back..........without research I think the SA record was about 786 Lb, by Brian Cohen ??

Hi Rob

I think that there's a bit more to it than that. I once asked the scientist Andrew Penney about the Fish Hoek fish. He said that they were not part of the main population of southern bluefins. The False Bay population was killed off before anyone had a chance to study it.

It was a small group of individual fish that was killed off by .........recreational anglers!

When I have asked the old commercial guys about the Fish Hoek fish they all say that they were a pest!. They would take baits meant for other fish and since they could not be landed on a hand line, they would just strip the line and gear. They used to call them "lynbrekers". Believe it or not there was no real price for them and other species were more valuable.

At the time there were no foreign tuna boats in South Africa. In those days there was no real market for southern bluefins. The Australians used to catch quite a few to send to the canneries for canned tuna.

South Africa still catches southern bluefins in the recreational sector  the smaller fish of less than 50kg's can be mistaken for yellowfin as well.

 

[jb2]

wp34 wrote:

Was  offered R500 for a small bronzie once on Strandfontein by Jackie Chan , could have been Bruce Lee, they ll look the same anyway. He was driving a white Navarra and had a henchman with him. Politely told him to ^%$(&#%&* right off!!!

And we all look the same to them!

 

[wp34]

jb2 wrote:

rob billimore wrote:

We do not catch Bluefin in our waters anymore. Now and then a lost fish will be caught by our Tuna longline fleet, but they pretty much dissapeared in the 60's already. Imagine that price for some of the fish caught in Fish Hoek Bay those years back..........without research I think the SA record was about 786 Lb, by Brian Cohen ??

Hi Rob

I think that there's a bit more to it than that. I once asked the scientist Andrew Penney about the Fish Hoek fish. He said that they were not part of the main population of southern bluefins. The False Bay population was killed off before anyone had a chance to study it.

It was a small group of individual fish that was killed off by .........recreational anglers!

When I have asked the old commercial guys about the Fish Hoek fish they all say that they were a pest!. They would take baits meant for other fish and since they could not be landed on a hand line, they would just strip the line and gear. They used to call them "lynbrekers". Believe it or not there was no real price for them and other species were more valuable.

At the time there were no foreign tuna boats in South Africa. In those days there was no real market for southern bluefins. The Australians used to catch quite a few to send to the canneries for canned tuna.

South Africa still catches southern bluefins in the recreational sector  the smaller fish of less than 50kg's can be mistaken for yellowfin as well.

Read somewhere they were used as dogfood. Nobody wanted bluefin at the time. If only they knew then what we know now!!

 

[jb2]

Nemesis wrote:

So True Wp34,so True,watched the documentary on Discovery a while ago,called Taboo,felt so swaak for those poor dogsThe A-Holes will one day deplete all Tuna stock and drive Whales/Sharks to extinction just to full their stomach!Thats for sure!

Hi as always a bit of perspective.

The only really "illegal" whaling being conducted today is by Iceland. They look like us though.

The main fishers of Atlantic tuna, swordfish and sharks is Spain. They look like us (except the girls are really pretty and their accents are cool.)

As for eating dogs. It makes me want to puke. But, I remind myself that my eating cows would make people in India want to puke.

I could never eat horse meat but it has become a delicacy in Belgium or Holland.