Yes, trolling would have been legal, catching it while trawling makes it illegal.
In this case the Captain thought he was legal because he had Blue Tuna tags. But the tags didn't mean a thing cause he caught it in his trawl net.
Boy, knowing how much this thing would sell far, I don't know if I would have been so up front about my catch.
“...I don’t know if I would have been so up front about my catch. “ How does one hide an 881-pound fish? Maybe it has to be weighed before it’s processed or something and there aren’t any secret scales.