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Surfer films 2 Great Whites checking him out.
Pretty cool video. The sharks are not that big, 7 and 9 feet, but seaweed touching my leg scares the hell out of me, so who cares if they were "smallish." Quote:
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Only the flesh of young Silurus glanis (Wels) specimens is valued as food. It is palatable when the catfish weighs less than 15 kg (33 lb). Larger than this size, the fish is highly fatty and not recommended for consumption. The eggs are poisonous and should not be consumed. Has anyone eaten the meat of a large wels? |
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November 23rd, 2011 | #25 |
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Regulators steal fisherman of his 900-pound catch
Carlos Rafael of New Bedford, Massachusetts says there is something fishy with the way the US government regulates his job. Rafael is a professional fisherman — or at least was — but is thinking of jumping ship after authorities told him to toss back the big one. Rafael was recently out on his boat when his crew inadvertently snared an 881-pound tuna using a fishing net. It doesn’t take a marine biologist to know that that’s a pretty big fish, and at a near-record weight like that, Rafael stood to make around $400,000 off the beast’s meat. In America, however, it isn’t always that easy. Yes, Rafael had a permit — after all, he’s a professional. The fisherman had in fact purchased 15 tunas in the last four years, reports The Standard-Times. Those accreditations don’t apply to nets, however, says US regulators, so because Rafael didn’t use a rod and reel to land his catch, they scooped up the tuna and will keep the cash. When the fisherman caught the fella, he called up a bluefin tuna telephone number maintained by fishery regulators to let them know about his big catch. He figured that by alerting them immediately, he’d be able to set up a deal just as quickly. "I wanted to sell the fish while it was fresh instead of letting it age on the boat," he says. Earlier this year, a fish only slightly smaller fetched $396,000 in Japan, so Rafael was eager to get the tuna onto land and eventually into the hands (and mouths) of consumers. When the fish made its way to the shore, however, regulators were waiting. http://rt.com/usa/news/fish-rafael-tuna-catch-085/ |
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Federal fishing regulation has all the wackiness of the environmentalists, plus all the blatant graft of. . .oh. . .19th century Nevada silver mining. That's on top of the 'normal' nightmare of dealing with government bureaucrats. |
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Then there is the battle between the commercial fishermen and the recreational fishermen with the recreational fishermen saying the commercial fishermen are over fishing and we ain't making no money. In steps the feds to try and manage the mess and result is to fuck it up even more. |
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The most expensive bluefin tuna will be the last one in the sea. |
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August 23rd, 2012 | #32 |
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Hawaii woman reels in half-ton marlin after FOUR HOUR battle that lost her a world record after help from crew
Molly Palmer misses a world record for her 1022.5lb fish because of a rule prohibiting her from not reeling it in herself By Daily Mail Reporter 23 August 2012 Hawaii woman reels in half-ton marlin after FOUR HOUR battle that lost her a world record after help from crew A 5-foot-9-inch woman tournament fishing in Hawaii waters fought a 12-foot marlin more than four hours before getting it on her team's boat and weighing it at more than a half-ton — a would-be world record. But 28-year-old Molly Palmer is missing out on the glory and thousands in tournament prize money for one pesky reason: Her team's honor code. Palmer needed to reel in the fish by herself in order for it to qualify as a valid catch for the tournament, according to rules set by the International Game Fishing Association. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ld-record.html |
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7 accused of fishing fraud in Texas tournament
The Associated Press Published: Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- Investigators say seven people have been charged with fishing fraud in a South Texas tournament. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden Jason Duke said Thursday that the suspects allegedly submitted a 2.6 pound flounder not caught during the contest. The South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce sponsored the Aug. 10-12 Ladies Kingfish Tournament. Duke says the defendants won a $5,000 second-place prize. Duke says warrants were served last weekend to four women who entered the tournament and three men. All have been arraigned and are free on bond. The fraud in a fishing tournament charge is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. A message left with the chamber for comment was not immediately returned Thursday. http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/23/475...-fraud-in.html |
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'Penis-head' fish discovered in Vietnam
A new species of fish with a penis on its head has been identified in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Phallostethus cuulong is the newest member of the Phallostethidae family — small fish found in Southeast Asian waters that are distinguished primarily by the positioning of the male sexual organ. Male phallostethids have a copulatory organ, termed the priapium, under the throat for holding or clasping onto females and fertilising their eggs internally, according to conservationists. "We have scientifically identified a new penis-head fish in Vietnam," researcher Tran Dac Dinh from Can Tho University told AFP. The fish was known to Vietnamese people in the Mekong Delta but had not been described scientifically before a team identified the species last year, he said. 9News |
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New species of fish A NEW species of fish has been named after President Barack Obama by the researchers who discovered it. The freshwater fish has distinctive bright orange and blue colours and is generally found in fast-flowing rivers around America. It is one of five new species of darter - the smallest member of the perch family - to be discovered in recent months. The remaining four species have been named after three other presidents and one vice-president. The tiny fish - which are normally under 50mm in length - have been spotted by researchers from Geosyntec Consultants and Saint Louis University in waters in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. New species of fish | The Nation |
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Fish story lands in NC's high court, $1M on line
By By EMERY P. DALESIO | Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — About four hours after the fishing charter boat Citation left dock on the Outer Banks to compete in one of the country's richest deep-sea fishing tournaments, crewmembers were in the fight of their lives. Something huge was hooked, but it was invisible to human sight as it dove for the ocean bottom about 27 miles off the North Carolina coast. Five hours later they hauled up a monster, an 883-pound, 14-foot-long blue marlin. They knew the silvery-blue torpedo of muscle bigger than a bear would mean a huge payday in the June 2010 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament when they recorded their catch in coastal Morehead City. "When we finally saw it we couldn't believe it," the Citation's captain, Eric Holmes of Buxton, said at the time. "To catch a fish this big ... it's something. It really is. We got lucky and it's good to be lucky." But their luck soured. The boat's owners landed in a fight for the $910,000 in prize money that continued Tuesday with arguments to North Carolina's Supreme Court. Tournament officials disqualified the Citation's crew because the 22-year-old first mate, Peter Wann of Alexandria, Va., did not have a $15 North Carolina fishing license when the fish was hooked. His license was purchased while the Citation was still two hours out to sea and chugging toward a landing. Tournament rules state that a fishing license is required for everyone aboard a participating vessel, said E. Bradley Evans, a lawyer for the contest's organizers. That rule was also emphasized at a pre-tournament meeting that Holmes and Wann did not attend. The non-profit group that runs the tournament has no gain in disqualifying the Citation, but did so to protect the contest's integrity, Evans said. "If none of the rules are material, then people could take rifles and shoot fish. They could fish at any hours of the day if they want to," Evans said. He said the rules were critical to the operation of the tournament and the most important aspect. Wann thought the Citation had a blanket license that covered the entire crew, and when he found out there may have been a question if his license was active he got online while still miles at sea and bought another while still outside the state's territorial waters, which extend three miles from shore, said Darren Jackson, an attorney for the boat's owners. "Maybe it was just luck that they happened to have a computer with internet access out in the middle of the ocean, but they did. And they did get the license," Jackson said. State regulators couldn't decide when or if Wann violated state fishing laws and had to amend the citation they issued the mate, Jackson said. While one tournament rule said North Carolina required a recreational fishing license for anyone aboard, the language didn't state that failing to follow the state law could lead to disqualification from the contest, Jackson said. Disqualification for violating the fishing license rule was as unreasonable as if the same punishment were leveled for other violations that didn't tilt the competition, like going too fast in a "no wake" zone or failing to have the proper number of lifejackets on board. "They applied this provision with the most drastic remedy they could," Jackson said. "It's the ultimate decision. It's their death penalty, so to speak. I would argue to you that's the height of arbitrariness." The high court should send the case back for a jury to decide, Jackson said, not let stand a lower-court ruling that he said doesn't pass the smell test. The Citation's lawsuit to reclaim its winnings was dismissed after it was transferred to the county where the tournament is based, and after local Superior Court Judge John Nobles Jr. decided its merits without a jury. Only just before the hearing did the Citation's lawyers learn that Nobles was the former law partner and vacation buddy of the attorney representing the boat finishing second after Citation. Claud Wheatly III and Nobles had taken several vacations together, including during the time the lawsuit had been under way, the Citation's lawyers said. Owners of the second-place Carnivore stand to divide $999,453 after taking the winner's share and part of the third-place money. Wheatly noted to the high court that Citation's lawyers have no evidence that Nobles displayed any prejudice or bias in the case. http://news.yahoo.com/fish-story-lan...093532675.html |
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Money, intrigue, and fish. Who says administrative and admiralty law aren't sexy?
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I sold this photo on ebay a few years ago. Guess who?
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