![]() ![]() Official notice of Federal fishery actions is made through filing such notice with the Office of the This notice is a courtesy to fishery participants to help keep you informed about the fishery. Required to report the catch of all bluefin tuna retained or discarded dead within 24 hours of the ![]() Separate from the dealer reporting requirement, Harpoon category permitted vessel owners are Retention limit adjustments or fishery closures and may result in enforcement actions. Lateĭealer reporting compromises NOAA Fisheries’ ability to implement actions such as quota and Catch reportingĭealers are required to submit landing reports within 24 hours of receiving bluefin tuna. This action applies only to commercial vessels with an Atlantic Tunas Harpoon category permit. The transfer will be in effect through November 15, 2021, or until the Harpoon category quota is reached, whichever comes first. The adjusted Reserve category quota is 138 With this transfer, the adjusted Harpoon category quota is 76 mt for the remainder of the 2021 fishing season. Over all this an informative quick read.NOAA Fisheries is transferring 30 metric tons (mt) of Atlantic bluefin tuna quota to the Harpoon category from the Reserve category. The author makes a compelling argument that form of fishing is really safer for the industry as it reduces by catch. Hard to believe that one time they were getting pennies on the pound for these fish. There was one caught that was estimated to be around 1,800 pounds. It is crazy to read the size of schools they would find sometimes in the thousands with them being routinely in 800 to 1,000 pound range. The author covers alot of information on blue fin tuna from fishing of, migration, eating habits. ![]() Many of these people got their start as Lobster fisherman and migrated over to or added tuna fishing as additional income. As you can tell from the title this is focused on the harpooning style of fishing, the history of harpoon fishing and the development of this style of fishing around the New England area. The author was fascinated from an early age with fishing when his family move to Maine and he was exposed to commercial fishing boats and seen his first blue fin tuna. You open these pages, you better start reading early because you are going be drawn in…….…. Harpoon is a captivating true story with a collection of photographs that paint the picture of a time never forgotten, and lived on by a handful of guys who still ‘aim the dart’. The men of old, the great harpooners of yesterday, and the fishermen of today who try to follow in those footsteps, Harpoon tells the tale of these few, the ‘Iron-men’ the ‘Stick boats’, the harpooners. Harpoon is vivid history of a fishery few people even know exists, taking the reader out on the pulpit, looking into the blue-green waters of the North Atlantic ocean searching for the black backs of the bluefin. They adapt to their changing environment, altering their patterns and behavior adapting to fishing pressure, they avoid dangerous areas, the boats and men that mean them harm. The bluefin tuna is warm blooded, extremely smart, long living and a highly migratory species. Fish stories, oh yeah, plenty of those, but the descriptions of how these fish are pursued, and the passion of the men who chase them is unprecedented. Corky takes us back though the history of this unique fishery to the very first one known to be harpooned in modern times to what the fishery has become today. The bluefin tuna, the most prized, expensive fish swimming in our oceans, are still harvested with hand thrown harpoons. It is one of the oldest and most primitive methods ever applied to the harvesting of fish, but it has survived and a handful of fishermen in New England still call themselves harpooners. Throwing a pole at a fish, ‘a harpoon’, in today’s high tech world of bots and micro chips, sounds kinda, past tense, and well, very old. ![]()
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