bad news for bluefin...

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

Iccat fails once again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7101745.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai.../eatuna120.xml

[Caveman Sportfishing]

Getting ready to leave house now (4:45 am) and headed to the local tackle shop to order fresh bunker for my upcoming weekend striper trips but had to stop and read this with my first cup of coffee. It does not surprise me in the least. Thanks for posting and have a great Thanksgiving. The bunker we use for stripers on the Delaware Bay is the same bait the GBT eat down off the Carolina coast.

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

Good to here from ya, hope you had a good thanksgiving. I read it won't be long befor your headed back down. Were getting started this week, looking foward to the season. I'm fishing my boat this year around home but will be ready to trailer up to MHC if need be. Have a safe trip down, hope to see you soon.

[SeaBiscuit]

Thanks for keeping us up to date with the BFT happenings captain Jon. How terribly unfortunate! I'm afraid that the only thing that will stop the prosecution of this great fish would be becoming a commercially non viable fishery. With the kind of $ the Japanese market is willing to pay for these fish though that could very well mean extinction for the fish.

How terribly has Bill Hogarth failed us all? His dreadful performance and dismissal from NC fisheries seemed to only propel him to the national and global offices where he can now be credited with "global" fisheries disasters.

SeaBiscuit

[tunacity]

Thanks for the post.

Ouch.

[ifish4tuna]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed...26/tuna_greed/


An editorial by James L. Connaughton chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Committee on Ocean Policy. William T. Hogarth is head of the US delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and director of the National Marine Fisheries Service.

[JD5652]

It's a sad turn of events for the BFT for sure especially in the eastern Atlantic and the Med...

[hotrodmarlin]

Doesn't suprise me. This stuff makes me question whether I really want to fish for them this year... the money is hard to pass up though.

[Jared D]

Never caught one, but it looks like they are going to be allowed to be completely decimated. ICCAT is useless. Sorry for all fishermen... not just those who have a direct stake with these tunas.
It just shows that big money is still allowed to rape our oceans with no ramifcations.