MultispeciesTamer;3823893; said:Personally I think any fish caught with your hands that is a game fish like this should be released. You dont just wade a river when the salmon are dieing and pick them up. Here in MI it is illegal and it should be else where this is why things are so messed up.
oscarcrazy;3823919; said:Why should the fishing laws for two completely different fisheries be the same. The reason you can't hand land river salmon is because they are actively breeding. This tuna wasn't even a wild fish,it was a penned farmed fish. Fishing by hand is very popular in many parts of the world. Ever hear of noodling?
TeChris;3824076; said:I don't think that those tuna are a true farmed fish as in: broodstock=fry=fish. Im pretty that those tuna were young wild tuna caught and put into a net pen to be fattened up to a more profitable size.
Personally I wouldn't feel right about harvesting a sp. of fish that future generations will probably only read about and ponder why they are extinct. I could understand harvesting the ones that are "fresh dead" but I highly dought all 35 of what he collected were dead. Hopefully CITES will put a banned on the bluefin tuna in March.
These fish were not farm raised. What happen is when the bluefin tuna go on there spawning run they come to the same areas, where people with large set nets, coral and catch them. Then they are moved to large pens where they are raised for a short term and killed. Thus all the bluefin tuna that were getting ready to spawn are caught and killed before spawning can happen, excluding the vary few that eluded the nets.oscarcrazy;3823919; said:Why should the fishing laws for two completely different fisheries be the same. The reason you can't hand land river salmon is because they are actively breeding. This tuna wasn't even a wild fish,it was a penned farmed fish. Fishing by hand is very popular in many parts of the world. Ever hear of noodling?
MultispeciesTamer;3826817; said:These fish were not farm raised. What happen is when the bluefin tuna go on there spawning run they come to the same areas, where people with large set nets, coral and catch them. Then they are moved to large pens where they are raised for a short term and killed. Thus all the bluefin tuna that were getting ready to spawn are caught and killed before spawning can happen, excluding the vary few that eluded the nets.
no its crimnal that people even still eat bluefinoscarcrazy;3829470; said:So the fish where destined for human consumption anyway, glad he was able to get a few.
The only reason noodling is legal is because not enough people do it. But the more people there is the more catfish are in danger. After all noodling is when all the big mature cats that repopulate are taken.oscarcrazy;3823919; said:Why should the fishing laws for two completely different fisheries be the same. The reason you can't hand land river salmon is because they are actively breeding. This tuna wasn't even a wild fish,it was a penned farmed fish. Fishing by hand is very popular in many parts of the world. Ever hear of noodling?
MultispeciesTamer;3830289; said:The only reason noodling is legal is because not enough people do it. But the more people there is the more catfish are in danger. After all noodling is when all the big mature cats that repopulate are taken.
Flathead catfish dont mature untill 4 years of age for males, or 5 years for females. Sometimes they dont reach breeding age till 10 years of age. Its a proven fact that larger healthy fish have better young and better genetics.likestofish;3830949; said:There is no freaking danger of over fishing from noddling at all, they mature at a really small size so even removing a foot long fish it probably has already spawned
MultispeciesTamer;3833870; said:Flathead catfish dont mature untill 4 years of age for males, or 5 years for females. Sometimes they dont reach breeding age till 10 years of age. Its a proven fact that larger healthy fish have better young and better genetics.
