Locally Caught Tuna !!

Looks like a small Bonito (Skipjack) to me, judging by the size of the mackerel......

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Bonito

Wonder where it came from?

Gary :)
 
Mmmmm.......get a good few portions of sushi from it, not a bad price either - think I was paying around £45 / kilo four years ago in London when I was doing lots of sushi / sashimi. Prime belly of bluefin was around £65 / kilo.

Mouth's watering already..... guess I'll just have to make do with marinated mackerel when I finally get round to going out for a few. Unless one strays close to Blyth Pier.....

Gary :)
 
Yeah part of the tuna family like the bluefin & yellowfin, bonito / skipjacks grow quick & are pretty sustainable - it's what you find in tins of tuna in the shops (although this has most of the goodness processed the heck out of it!).

Gary :)
 
globel warming my backside. the north sea had a tuna fishery until the early 1900s. that was until man took all its food ie herring from the seas. theres no reason why if nature is left to run its course that they should not return. but man being man i sure if any do return they will be scooped from the sea before they have a chance to be established.
tuna are found off the west coast of ireland and in the bay of biscay off france so realy there not that far away.
 
ANDREW JAMES said:
globel warming my backside. the north sea had a tuna fishery until the early 1900s. that was until man took all its food ie herring from the seas. theres no reason why if nature is left to run its course that they should not return. but man being man i sure if any do return they will be scooped from the sea before they have a chance to be established.
tuna are found off the west coast of ireland and in the bay of biscay off france so realy there not that far away.
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so are you trying to tell me the water temp isnt going up???????:confused:
 
Whether is down to water temps or Herrings returning or a combination of the 2 wouldn't mind getting one on a spinning road =)

Good news for the future I hope
 
there is no dout the sea temp is rising. however the earth over its life has always warmed and cooled. what man has done over the past 100 years may have speeded up a natural occurance but global warming is just an excuse to tax us more. i will do my bit to try and slow it down to its natural rate but it will happen.
 
good to see;) deff would say rise in sea temps help but probabily down to food sources on the increase, just look how much herring about compared to other years

and as said we used to have a tuna fisherie off whitby many yrs ago before that got decimated along with the herring:mad:

hopfully a sign of good things to come:D
 
ANDREW JAMES said:
there is no dout the sea temp is rising. however the earth over its life has always warmed and cooled. what man has done over the past 100 years may have speeded up a natural occurance but global warming is just an excuse to tax us more. i will do my bit to try and slow it down to its natural rate but it will happen.
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Got to agree with you mate, common sense prevails !
 
I reckon if tuna started to be caught by RSA's around north east shore marks like shields pier etc. Licensing for the activity would come in as quick as fu**in lightning.
 
i don't think the warming of the north sea [if it is actually warming wich is still open to debate]has anything to do with tuna hopefully returning to the north sea, a hundred years ago there where huge tuna shoals in the our so called cooler sea and they where here for one reason and one reason only the millions upon millions of herring that lived here,and if the herring are making comeback so will the tuna. but i don't think the herring or the tuna will ever be present in the north sea in the huge numbers of the past.

foot note don't forget the humble mackerel is also a member of the tuna family.
 
paulthespark said:
i don't think the warming of the north sea [if it is actually warming wich is still open to debate]has anything to do with tuna hopefully returning to the north sea, a hundred years ago there where huge tuna shoals in the our so called cooler sea and they where here for one reason and one reason only the millions upon millions of herring that lived here,and if the herring are making comeback so will the tuna. but i don't think the herring or the tuna will ever be present in the north sea in the huge numbers of the past.

foot note don't forget the humble mackerel is also a member of the tuna family.
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what a load of bollocks tuna caught off this coast cannot believe some of these comments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Beacon1 said:
what a load of bollocks tuna caught off this coast cannot believe some of these comments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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it,s quite obvious that you don,t have a clue about the marine history of the north sea, think of it this way yellow fin tuna are caught off the coast of newfoundland canada and believe me the waters around there are a lot colder than the north sea. but anyway thanks for your well informed and thoughtfull coments on the marine life that was and in some cases is still is living in the north sea [really made me sit up and think]
 
Beacon1 said:
what a load of bollocks tuna caught off this coast cannot believe some of these comments !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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get yourself down Whitby of even saltburn for that matter and look at the photos of the tuna fleets on the walls, it wasn't that long ago. And apart from that look at the photo at the start of the thread that was only hours ago.
 

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