any MFKer who cares about fish should read this! i saw the ads for this show while watching shark week. i thaught it was just another Deadleist Catch wannabe show... but for the heck of it i watched it last night. its about long lining for large swordfish! for those of you that dont know longlining is a form of fishing where a central line that stretches 1000 yards and has thousands of baited hooks dangling from it is put out from a boat for about three days and pulled in with an electronic wench. out of a thousand hooks they say a good catch is 30 legal fish. what they talk about was all the juvenile fish, sea turtles and sea birds killed and are thrown back. Me and my dad watched in horror as a 60lb sword fish was brought onto the deck that had evidently been dead for a while because it was as stiff as a plank. the deck hand un hooked the dead fish and threw it back then pretended it would be fine as it floated away lifelessly. 
then they brought up about a 500lb bluefin tuna i was nearly crying as they bludgeoned the great giant to death! 
so i did soe googleing to get some sad facts for you guys
#1 the estimated stock of spawning bluefin tunas has reduced to 12% of what it was in 1970
#2 two out of every three swordfish are caught before they get a chance to spawn! males begin to spawn at three years of age or at 70lbs and females at 5 years or 115lbs
#3 of the female swordfish caught comercially 83%!!!! are immature!
#4 U.S longliners usually " discard " between 40-50% of the swords they catch because the are to small to sell. and due to trauma recieved from being caught ( jaws , gills , fins , torn apart) virtually all of these fish (between ages 1 and 2 ) are either already dead or die shortly after!
#5 in 1988 the U.S. fleet " discarded" 433 TONS of such fish.
these are a FEW of the facts i could get i can and will post more but olny after every 5 posts i get showing that )Y(fk cares! so post up!
then they brought up about a 500lb bluefin tuna i was nearly crying as they bludgeoned the great giant to death! so i did soe googleing to get some sad facts for you guys#1 the estimated stock of spawning bluefin tunas has reduced to 12% of what it was in 1970
#2 two out of every three swordfish are caught before they get a chance to spawn! males begin to spawn at three years of age or at 70lbs and females at 5 years or 115lbs
#3 of the female swordfish caught comercially 83%!!!! are immature!
#4 U.S longliners usually " discard " between 40-50% of the swords they catch because the are to small to sell. and due to trauma recieved from being caught ( jaws , gills , fins , torn apart) virtually all of these fish (between ages 1 and 2 ) are either already dead or die shortly after!
#5 in 1988 the U.S. fleet " discarded" 433 TONS of such fish.
these are a FEW of the facts i could get i can and will post more but olny after every 5 posts i get showing that )Y(fk cares! so post up!
