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Originally Posted by Sea Flat
All i know is that there have virtually no juvenile BFT and that is a huge problem. They won't just magically get to be 100+ lbs. without being small first and there have been few to none caught in New England waters this year under 100 lbs.
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I certainly won't argue that they've been scarce and that overall the fishery could be in trouble but if you were South of Rhode Island in August between 20 and 40 miles out, you'd have a seen a LOT of tuna between 20 and 80 pounds. Big schools and many miles of water that had them.
It was encouraging to see them tearing baitfish apart.
They are out there. Enough to keep things healthy, I don't know. But they're around.