Is everyone selling their Bluefins?

[MAKO19]

I see a lot of videos and pictures of you guys with these bluefins at what looks to be a fish house. Is everybody selling them? How much are you getting per pound? Anybody taking any sushi home? Also, it looks like everyone is coring these fish on the boats. Is this required to get top dollar for the fish?

Just curious as I sit up here and only dream of tuna fishing and fresh steaks hitting the searing pan. Thanks fellas!

[WAHOONBOX]

THERE ARE ABOUT 40 BOATS LEFT ACTIVELY COMMERCIALLY TUNA FISHING RIGHT NOW.....SPECIAL REQUIREMNETS AND PERMITS REQUIRED

THEY ARE CORED TO GET RIFD OF THE GUTS AND CHILL DOWN.....LIMIT 3 ADAY FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS

PRICES VARY......SO DO FUEL PRICES...FLUORO...LURES...LINE ...130'S....FOOD....REPAIRS...DOCKAGE...INSURANCE ETC ETC AND ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED PRIVATE JUST AS MOST PAYROLL CHECKS....

IT DANG SURE AIN'T NO GET RICH SCHEME LIKE MOST NEWCOMERS TO THE COMM INDUSTRY THINK THATS FOR SURE!

IT'S CALLED GAMBLING.......

[Boonebird]

What the hell i keep hearing about theses 30000 to 120000 dollar fish. Guys put 2 and 2 togeather. Every commercial fisherman i have meet has a multi million dollar house and boat. Nothing ever breake's its pure profit. LOL

[Boonebird]

I think Billy joel summed that one up the best in the late 80's early 90's . Check out downeaster alexa if you have never heard.

[gottaflylee]

What the hell i keep hearing about theses 30000 to 120000 dollar fish. Guys put 2 and 2 togeather. Every commercial fisherman i have meet has a multi million dollar house and boat. Nothing ever breake's its pure profit. LOL

You ain't meet me yet...I don't have a multi million dollar house and boat... and I have not herd of any $120,000 fish thes year or last...

[Boonebird]

Dam u must be fishign the wrong waters.

[Wild Life Management]

You ain't meet me yet...I don't have a multi million dollar house and boat... and I have not herd of any $120,000 fish thes year or last...

Lee, I think this is one of those times where the internet acted as a sarcasm filter. Know what I mean?

[Boonebird]

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
And left this morning fromhe bell in Gardiner's Bay
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
And I go where the ocean is deep
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can't fall asleep

I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
But I've got people back on land who count on me

So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
More and more miles from shore every year
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
And there's no luck in swordfishing here

I was a bayman like my father was before
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me

[gottaflylee]

Lee, I think this is one of those times where the internet acted as a sarcasm filter. Know what I mean?

Well just kick me in the...