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After having lunch with my wife and a long time friend today at my favorite fish restaurant in San Mateo, the photo over the door caught my attention and I had to post it.
With ALL due respect to you Alan and this incredible reel repair educational website, and Stainless steel this and that, and tanking a 113H, what I was thinking when I looked at this photo was... "We don't need any stinking CF Drags!!!"
Fish hard!! Pull Harder!
Wayne
When I was stationed in Point Loma I used to look at the tuna fleet monument at least twice a week. As much as I hate So Cal, the history of those men is impressive.
Ron
That's how I learned to tuna fish. ;D
Note, I said "learned" not that I did it.
This is a classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_Rs75-5vI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_Rs75-5vI)
THATS WHAT I CALL BOIL. GREAT VID.
Now that's a wide open tuna bite I haven't seen since I was a kid.
Whoa!
Hey Bob, I bought that same video. Neat how they use the potato to determine the salinity of the water for the slurry to store the fish. These guys needed those helmets. They were crazy! Thanks for reminding me of this I need to watch it again.
Bob
i was trying to figure out who the narrator was. it sounded like david janssen, the guy that played "the fugitive" in that 1960's tv show!
Alan, I'm not sure. I grabbed the DVD and there is no mention of the narrator.
That was great !! Thanks for posting.
John
I'm pretty sure it's William Conrad who used to play "Cannon" on TV, as well as many other roles.
yes, it does sound more like him! another great tv show! ;D
Alan, I just looked him up. It says he used to be the narrator on "The Fugitive", so that's probably what made you think about that show.
It didn't list it on Wikipedia, but I think he used to narrate a series of outdoor shows in the 70s. I can't think of the name of it though.
I wonder how long a moratorium would need to be in order to bring the numbers back to what they were?
I have heard as little as a year would make huge difference.
Reduce the limits on the purse seiners by 50% - that alone would help immensely!!!!
The productivity of the ocean is always our savior!
Wayne
Nice Pic and great video!
I was born-n-raised in San Diego.
Well I remember the Seiners lined up on Embarcadero and the stink of fish as the canneries spit out Starkist and others by the truckload.
Those seiners were beautiful pieces of art in their own right, with their sweeping lines and curves.
As a young man I worked as a deckhand for a tour boat/charter company on SD harbor, a good number of my coworkers/captains were old school Italian & Portuguese tuna fisherman.
A local bar we used to frequent, The Waterfront Bar & Grill (The first licensed bar in San Diego - liquor license #001), the walls were covered in old Tuna Fleet pics.
Several of the old guys I worked with were in those pics as young men in their prime, who could well have been in that video.
I've a couple of the barbless, feathered, squid jigs they used to fish like that with, and I'm happy to have them in my collection.
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I remember seeing this video as a small child; probably about 6 or so. I remember it vividly. Thanks so much for posting it.
I hate seeing the resource raped like that. Reminds me of the indiscriminate slaughter of the Bison. It's amazing that the Tuna numbers have held up like they have, and not gone the way of the Bison too.
Quote from: nelz on September 09, 2013, 09:49:52 PM
I hate seeing the resource raped like that. Reminds me of the indiscriminate slaughter of the Bison. It's amazing that the Tuna numbers have held up like they have, and not gone the way of the Bison too.
Compared to purse seining, that's a pretty benign form of commercial fishing. I doubt they could have that much effect on the resource.
I cuncur,
The current harvest methods produce tens of times that much fish. The current population doesn't support that type of harvest because their aren't enough fish!
Ron
That was all due to the needs of WWII. The canneries and fish stocks plummeted due to the needs of our servicemen. The seining of bait could be seen as a source of the issue, but everyone wants their bait tanks full for their trips. Ultimately, the purse seine operations for pelagic fish in Mexico and offshore are a huge problem. Seining for species at the upper end of the trophic level depletes the ecosystem of the massive amounts of lower trophic forage required to produce upper level trophic consumers.