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Big money fish
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2...
A 344-pound blue marlin was worth $224,244 for first- place in Bisbee's East Cape Offshore Tournament in the first weekend of August. The annual
tournament has become one of the world's biggest billfish events, and takes place at Buena Vista Resort in southern Baja near Cabo San Lucas.
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Tournaments? Good or bad for the Sea of Cortez?
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Great for people, bad for animals. People live NEAR the Sea, animals live IN the Sea. Just look at the conservation efforts by millions around the
globe to preserve habitat, leave UNMOLESTED wild things roaming freely in that habitat -- then there's the tournaments. Duh!
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Skeet/Loreto
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Anon
From an old tmer: When you would like your Post to be considered as VALID, please use your nmae and give some of the other Posters the curtsey of a
Reply.
You should know, unless you are very young, that there are valid Points to be taken on both sides of a Post that seems to be made to start afight
between the opposing Points.
Good, Bad, or indeferent, the Human will contuine to catch and Eat fish from the ocean, other people will Cry and whine that they are killing the
Planet!
So, if you have some Valid Points, Please Post them, othersise Please leave theSpace for Factual and interesting Posts.
thank you skeet/Loreto
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Bruce R Leech
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Anonymous? Good or bad for the Nomad forum? 
Bruce R Leech
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wilderone
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" ...other people will Cry and whine that they are killing the Planet!" Not true. The point is, that with irresponsible fishing techniques,
poaching, subverting conservation efforts and general degradation of fish habitat, we are killing ourselves by eradicating a source of food. Mankind
cannot be so shortsighted and selfish in their relatively short span of time on earth, to not consider future generations. One only needs to look
back one generation to see the results of such shortsightedness and selfishness.
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Bajalero
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Anon
Speaking for myself , I appreciate your post and as far as I'm concerned I could give a rats a** if you post anon or not. I come to the board to see
what's happening in baja when I can't be there. I bet 50% of the posts on this board have nothing to do with the peninsula so info in any form is
welcome to me.
What's with the few posters here that have a problem with it , I don't know . Some sort of insecurity or a little too Chilango perhaps?
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backninedan
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Couldnt agree more, a name on a post means nothing. Post away anons.
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MrBillM
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Anonymous Assumptions
The most prevalent problem with Anonymous is when you see a bunch of them on one subject and they seem to be in conflict with each other. The
assumption has been that they are DIFFERENT people, but perhaps they are all the same person suffering from multiple-personality disorder and they
simply don't know who they are at any given moment. Most of the personalities seem deranged so we should give this possibility consideration.
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jerry
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deranged
i just look at anons all as being deranged that way i can just ignore all of them have a good one
jerry and judi
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Skeet/Loreto
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You said it One!
All you have to do is look back to see the Shortsightness
First; Did away with DDT cost the lives of many People
Second; The "Snail-Darter{ Debackle}
Third: The socalled "Global Warming' Non-truths.
Fourth: The ruining of the nations School Systems
Fifth: Taking away the Paddle in Schools
Sixth: The Sierra club
The Poster can find many good and Bad thngs to Post about, the only thing I was trying to get across is that they could have more Respect/Validity if
they would be Proud of their Name in stead of Ashamed of their Generaration. Is it Ashamed or Frightfull?
Skeet/Loreto
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Bisbees is a good thing....
This is a catch and release tournement and Bisbees has in fact been the front runner in establishing, promoting and implementing the catch and release
billfish movement in Mexico.
Without organizations like Bisbees and a concentrated effort from all sport fishermen the old fashioned irrisponsible ways of the mexicans would not
have changed and the Quaility of this fishery would have continued to erode.
Tournements and sportsfishermen have in fact saved this precious resource and are partly responsable for the small amount of regulation we are now
seeing in the Sea Of Cortez.
Work is just something I do to keep me buzy between baja trips!
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My question still continues: Are tournaments good or bad for the Sea of Cortez? The death rate of all caught and released fish, both freshwater and
saltwater is an unknown. Very few tagged fish recaptures occur preportionate to the total amount of fish tagged by conservation officials or
sportsmen. Could it be that most of these fish simple die from the increased lactic acid build-up in their muscle tissues brought on by the fight
against the rod and sink to the bottom? I am concerned with the dwindling fish stocks in the Sea of Cortez..which is a fact that cannot be ignored.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic..and so am I. Just joking, fer chrissakes. "Levity"
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Serious Post comng Tommorrow!
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Fish
How do you weigh a 300# fish and release it? Sounds like work.
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A little helpful info on releasing fish...
To add a little on fish releases:
IF you catch and release. This is info to bring any novice fishermen 'up to speed' on how to correctly land and release fish. Of course this info is
for freshwater species mostly, but can be amended 'somewhat' to saltwater gamefish. Be careful! Use gloves! If any are at hand, let more
experienced hands do the job. Just remember the BIG difference between brookies and bills!
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'move (344 lb. marlin) gently back and forth in the water, pushing water past the gills, until the fish takes of on its own volition. Don't just just
give it a grand toss (!) back into the water.'
I want a picture of that! 
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Don't know about any other anon-posting fisherman here, but it's quite easy and done fairly often. We have done that many times in the past 35 years
of fishing Alijos Rocks, Hurricane Banks, Sam's, and all over the East Cape and up the Cortez. Mostly you don't have to revieve the fish, he does
that little trick himself...but if he IS exhausted, then holding the bill with a pair of strong non-slip gloved hands will do the trick..having the
boat in forward slooowlly moving ahead passing water over the gill plates. Works for us.
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tehag
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Fish
My question wasn't about the release part, but the weighing. How does the crew/fisherperson weigh the fish?
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You can buy the canvas sling scales, or better yet, make your own canvas/rubber weighing sling using pvc piping and either canvas or rubber sheeting.
We have made both...rubber for weighing and releasing sharks...mostly makos.
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