big eye tuna caught at christchurch bay

[Pout]

Err Scotty, you should ask before lifting me pic from the local rag, copywright and all that, looks like the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror are also going to use the pic.

 

Chris Clark

[Scotty T]

Sorry about that, its for information purposes, its in the Mail today. Should of got the echo to lock the pic.

 

Scotty

[Vagabond]

Looks like a bigeye tuna to me

 

Features consistent with bigeye:-

 

Big eye !

Wide iris

Yellow finlets - with black edges

Dark caudal keel

Short second dorsal

Longish pectoral fin

 

Bigeye normally reach the Bay of Biscay, so its not that far from it "normal" haunts

[P.H.T.]

Nets 20Meters off shore!!!! is there any hope

[Elton]

Yeah, a shotgun must be effective at that range

[H.A.]

Here's my offering from the 'other side' ........

 

 

I had a conversation with 'Pout' about it tonight ......

 

he's got it in 3 national papes!

 

We both fall on the side of Albacore ......

 

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSum...esname=alalunga

 

 

Posted on 03.12.04 at 22:04

 

H.A.

( 'Blues' fer Europe this year ...)

Britain was never 'full of tuna', but in the 30s - 50s some of the aristocracy found out that if they went out in the mid-North Sea and followed the herring drifters, they had a chance of a bruddy great bluefin .....

 

"Hooray, this is like playing roulette in Monaco!

 

Once hooked, they played them out of clinker dingies and the mother boat had to follow, 'cos 'bluey' was in charge.

 

Trouble is the drifters caught so many herrings, the herrings neared extinction and there were thousands of unemployeds on the East Coast.

 

Now, where have we met a similar scenario ??????

 

 

L Mitchell-Henry 851lbs .....

 

Whitby 1933

 

TUNNY (Thunnus thynnus)

B 851 0 0 385 989 1933 L Mitchell-Henry, Whitby, Yorks

S 40 - - 18 143 Qualifying weight

TUNNY (Big-eyed) (Thunnus obesus)

B 30 - - 13 607 Qualifying weight

S 66 12 0 30 276 1985 A L Pascoe (Aged 15), Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall

TUNNY (Long-finned) (Thunnus alalunga)

B 4 12 0 2 155 1990 B Cater, Salcombe Estuary, Devon

 

set mee thinkin' till I see Pouts picture .......

 

Ada

 

Posted on 03.12.04 at 22:23

 

H.A.

( 'Blues' fer Europe this year ...)

 

You can't confuse an Allison (yellowfin) with any other tuna because of its coloured fins.

 

Pout said he photographed the fish and it had pectorals like Jordan .....

 

I need to see a piccy ......

 

the point hasn't really been made that this a very rare event around Eng/Wales; but look what's happening off NW Northern Ireland.

 

Interested to hear what the knowledgeable conservation chappies think ......

 

 

Posted on 03.12.04 at 22:57

[Pelyma]

Sorry but juvenille yellowfin look almost identicle to blackfin and that picture isn't good enough to tell the difference. If you look at US magazines they often have questions asking which tuna a person has caught and they struggle too.

[Zigs]

welcome to anglers net pelyma

 

[n4lly]

Pelyma

We know its difficult with juveniles, it would need a liver inspection to be sure.

 

However, my buck is on that it some thing other than a Yellowfin

[H.A.]

It's a big-eyed .......

 

pout will let us know Sun or Mon ......

 

it doesn't look fresh caught to me ......

 

Ada