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Old 07-15-2013, 08:01 AM   #1
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Disgruntled Tuna Men

With the Wicked Tuna series and high prices have boaters buying expensive gear to go an make money tuna fishing...they will be lucky to break even....prices R 4-5 bucks a lb. ....the yen is down and most fish R going to the domestic market....harpooners go many miles most days...have to pay the plane etc:....many will not break even.
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Think of all the fire sales on gear in 6 months when everything bought on credit can't be paid for!!
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Old 07-15-2013, 10:12 AM   #3
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which TUNA yields the white ALBACORE meat

i've often wondered....
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Old 07-15-2013, 10:44 AM   #4
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Albacore = Albacore

White Tuna (Sushi Menu) = Escolar (don't eat too much...)
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Old 07-15-2013, 11:16 AM   #5
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Albacore = Albacore

White Tuna (Sushi Menu) = Escolar (don't eat too much...)
Albacore and Escolar are both called "white tuna" but they are radically different fish.

Sushi white tuna (shiro=white and maguro=tuna) is albacore, the same fish that goes into canned tuna. They are long-finned tuna that I am catching out here on the west coast - out of California, Oregon and Washington.

Escolar are also nicknamed white tuna, but are not the same thing. Escolar are tropical or temperate water fish and are really oily and cause problems. I have only heard of them being caught in South and Central America. they look different and are crazy oily/waxy. and if you eat a lot you get a form of diarrhea with oily discharge - just like olestra (remember those commericals).

look up escolar - makes you not want to eat it. I have tried it smoked.....its good...and fishy. I like it, but after reading up, not going to buy it again

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Old 07-15-2013, 01:09 PM   #6
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it was like wicked tuna radio on Jefferies Saturday.... I got out there for first light set up on the edge of the cove....soon all the other "real tuna guys came in" and set up on either side of us. we had everyone on wicked tuna chatting up a storm...well everyone except tuna .com. we had ralph and the odesea right next to us. I belive some were on ground fish carters ...I know odesea was tuna fishing.
no one I know of caught any tuna , we didn't mark any and only got punished by blue dogs....
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it was like wicked tuna radio on Jefferies Saturday.... I got out there for first light set up on the edge of the cove....soon all the other "real tuna guys came in" and set up on either side of us. we had everyone on wicked tuna chatting up a storm...well everyone except tuna .com. we had ralph and the odesea right next to us. I belive some were on ground fish carters ...I know odesea was tuna fishing.
no one I know of caught any tuna , we didn't mark any and only got punished by blue dogs....
Odysea came by us at 11am Sunday in P-town. He must've steamed down in the morning.

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which TUNA yields the white ALBACORE meat

i've often wondered....
I'm (and NEBE) are good at catching those!
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Odysea came by us at 11am Sunday in P-town. He must've steamed down in the morning.
ya someone asked him on the radio how pirate was and he said he hangs out in front of the liquor store and takes pics and signs autographs for six packs! lol
some of the stuff they were talking about was hilarious
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My buyer just did an 6500 yen per kilo fish that came into ptown
Roughly 45.00 per pound back to the boat and another @ roughly 25.00 back to the boat
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which TUNA yields the white ALBACORE meat

i've often wondered....
Albacore tuna (Duh!) We have them around here, usually (but not always) 40+ miles from shore. They have very distinctive loooong pectoral fins.

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Longfin albacore known also as "penguins" over VHF lingo. They are a lot of fun to catch and are delicious to eat. I look forward to them every season, they are cool looking fish and they fight like hell. Generally a canyon fish but every now and again you see them closer but still aways offshore.

We have some amazingly warm temps now off of were I live. A buddy went out yesterday and recorded temps as high as 82.5 at the dump. That is gulf stream temps...just imagine what it will be a month from now! Soon we will have wahoo from the beach!

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Albacore prefer cooler water, high 60s low 70s.

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Had my lunch over at the Padnarum boat ramp, one guy had a good size Bonita (not an Albie) he trolled up around the islands this morning. warm water isnt all bad news
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Longfin albacore known also as "penguins" over VHF lingo. They are a lot of fun to catch and are delicious to eat. I look forward to them every season, they are cool looking fish and they fight like hell. Generally a canyon fish but every now and again you see them closer but still aways offshore.

We have some amazingly warm temps now off of were I live. A buddy went out yesterday and recorded temps as high as 82.5 at the dump. That is gulf stream temps...just imagine what it will be a month from now! Soon we will have wahoo from the beach!
Another cobia caught in chatham.

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Another cobia caught in chatham.
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