Seems this year has ushered in a poor year overall for tuna. At least thats' the spin I'm hearing. I have also heard of some productive areas but it
appears the typically reliable places have not been.
More than likely it is in parallel with a climatic cycle the scientists have assured us were now in.
But is it?
It's incredibly sad, the distruction of a biosphere. Lessons are taught but the "protectors" failed in learning anything.
Explotation of important element(s) can lead to a complete collapse as is evident in BOC. The element(s) most likely in this case, raping the seabed
of shellfish.
The fear of tuna spieces declining looms and may in part be due of heavy baitfish pressure attributed to the tuna farms heavy demand and global temp
shifts. They fatten the fish at an abnormal rate. Depletions of the bait stocks has a double edge, tuna will seek more bountiful waters intuitively or
instinctively when fodder dwindles.
Replenishing stocks is a whole other story.
Seeing declining stocks recently may and I underline maysignal a problem of great signifigance.rpleger - 9-28-2005 at 08:18 PM
SureFrank - 9-28-2005 at 08:27 PM
Here in San Diego the Tuna {Yellowfin} season this year was/is terrible. I just fished the Make A Wish tournament and hardly any tuna were weighed in.
We have more bait offshore then most of us have ever seen, we should of had a banner year, it didnt happen. 100 miles or so to our south the seiners
and super seiners were very busy wrapping huge Tuna schools. These are the schools that were making the trip north. Its not hard to connect the dots.
IMHO.
Tuna farms in the area are feeding the Bluefin large amounts of sardines to fatten the fish up. I havent seen a decline in bait, as yet. We have
been watching and waiting. I will say that when we roll through the Coronados during feeding time, we stop and watch the show. I cant help from
screaming at the fish blowing up on the bait!
Last year a few BFT did get loose, and hung out around the Islands, made for some interesting fish reports.
The Striped Marlin season in S. Ca. is one of the best on record. I heard the Albies are thick off of Washington state @ 25-30 miles out. Our
resident Black Seabass population is coming back strong, and the White seabass fishing has been great.
I dont know if the fish stocks are being depleted at a rate that cant be naturally replenished. I guess you have to ask if your talking about
Pelagic fish or resident fish stocks. Pelagic, who knows what happens on the high seas? Resident fish, the population rises and falls be climate
conditions, so who knows for sure. All I can give you is what I see on the water.Sharksbaja - 9-28-2005 at 11:05 PM
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Originally posted by rpleger
Sure
.....another invaluble response.
WGARA would be much more appropriate.PabloS - 9-29-2005 at 12:20 PM
