When we catch giant bluefin tuna we fly to Canada,Boston,NC wherever they are, charter a $1,500 dollar a day boat run by two or three people,stay in local motels, eat out at local restaurants, use 1,000 dollar rods with 2,000 dollar reels, take one or two fish and release the rest to be caught another day or netted by commercials who are allowed to catch 100 times what we are.
I still say its all BS netting those valuable fish.
Its even worse with swordfish and they have a world wide quota which means so many will be slaughtered by longliners every year.
“use 1,000 dollar rods with 2,000 dollar reels”
Wow! Don’t get me wrong, I’m pro sport fishing. But want to balance it out with commercial fishing. But certainly understand it’s eventually like market hunting ducks that was outlawed in the 1920s being an avid duck hunter. I just don’t know when that’s going to happen.