Bluefin tuna fishing season suspended in Many Places Around the World

 

Bluefin tuna fishing season suspended in Gibraltar

The temporary closure will remain in effect until 6 August when the season will reopen for anglers

Gibraltar

Friday, 4 July 2025, 12:15

The Rock's department of the environment announced that the bluefin tuna open season is now suspended from 1 July 2025.

The temporary closure will remain in effect until 6 August, 2025, when the season will reopen for anglers.

During the closed season, the capture and landing of any bluefin tuna is strictly prohibited.

BD Outdoors - 2025 yellowtail Shoot-out Tourniment results

 Results Page 2025 YT Shoot Out

 

The 2025 18^th annual BD Outdoors Yellowtail Shootout has come to a close, and it was a tournament to remember! Anglers from all over Southern California came to compete in this exciting fishing tournament, hoping to catch the biggest yellowtail in the waters off the San Diego coast.

The tournament which began in the early hours on Saturday (June 21st) morning, was filled with excitement and anticipation. Greeted with less than ideal weather conditions, our teams set out hoping to find the right zone to pull out the winning fish. We want to thank all of our teams for enduring the wind and putting together some great bags of fish. As the day wore on, the weigh stations were abuzz with activity, as anglers brought in their catches to be weighed.

Although the bite wasn’t wide open, there was certainly no lack of fish seen by our competing teams. This year, the biggest yellowtail caught in the tournament was a massive homeguard coming in at 36.6 pounds!

The 2025 Yellowtail Shootout saw 63 boats and 218 anglers compete for the trophy. Another massive thank you to all of our anglers and great sponsors who helped fill the awards ceremony stage with phenomenal prizes and raffle items! We were ecstatic with the excitement and enthusiasm from all of our competitors throughout this past weekend and we can’t wait to run it back next year. For the full results from this years tournament, see below.

 

2025 Yellowtail Shootout Payouts

1st Place “Presented by Costa Del Mar”

Team 52 – Elle J with a bag weight of 94.0 pounds and collects $3150 dollars and the following prizes:  Costa Sunglasses for the whole team, A Rainshadow Rod Made by M&M Custom Rods (you choose color and components. The winner, not you Todd), Dexter Dextreme 3-Knife Fillet Kit & Hat, a Morita Gaff, AFTCO Multitool, FishDope 1-yr Gift Certificate, Everingham Bait Brothers 1/2 scoop of bait, Custom Engraved One Cool Tuna 4 Gold Jig, Deckhand 60″ Kill Bag, 2 YETI Yonder Bottles, YETI Flask Blue, AFTCO Saiko Pro Fluoro, Grundens Wayward Roll Top 38L Backpack, YETI GoBox 30 and a Starbrite boat cleaning kit with deck brush.  They also covered the board and took down all the jackpots.  $100 Jackpot for $2,380, $200 Jackpot for $3,060 and the $300 Jackpot for $4,335.  Elle J will take home $16,070 in cash.

 

2nd Place- “Presented by FishDope”

Team 3 – FORK N TAIL with a bag weight of 48.7 pounds and collects $1575 dollars and the following prizes:  A Dexter Dextreme 3-Knife Fillet Kit & Hat, YETI Camino Carryall, AFTCO Multitool, FishDope 1-yr Gift Certificate, Everingham Bait Brothers 1/2 scoop of bait, Custom Engraved One Cool Tuna 4 Gold Jig, YETI Hopper Flip Cooler, Deckhand 48″ Kill Bag, AFTCO Saiko Pro Fluoro, 2 pairs of Costa Sunglasses , 2 YETI Yonder Bottles, Grundens Bootlegger Roll Top 30L Backpack, AFTCO Titan Net and a Starbrite boat cleaning kit with deck brush.

 

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Cool Tuna - Hot Wasabi Sandwich - Great Recipe

Cool Tuna - Hot Wasabi Sandwich - Great Recipe

 

Try this great recipe from Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise. 

I made it last week using some Yellowfin tuna I had leftover from the weekend BBQ, It was GREAT.

 

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise, divided
• 1 Tbsp. prepared wasabi
• 2 cans (5 oz. ea.) solid white albacore tuna in water, drained. Or try your BlueFin or Yellowfin Tuna. ( Smoked or leftover Grilled. Fresh caught from fishermen or buddies.
  
• 1/4 cup sliced green onions
• 1/4 cup chopped celery
• 2 tsp. soy sauce
• 4 ciabatta rolls, split
• 1 cup sliced seedless cucumber

Combine 1/4 cup Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise with wasabi in small bowl; set aside. Combine tuna, green onions, celery, soy sauce and remaining 1/4 cup Mayonnaise in medium bowl.

 Evenly spread wasabi mayonnaise on rolls. Evenly top roll bottoms with tuna salad, then cucumbers and roll tops. 

 

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Local Knowledge - Fishing Show - BD Outdoors Season 7

 

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In this week's preview, Ali and Rush head back to San Diego to see what August has to offer.  With the tuna settling in and a kelp fishery in full swing, Ali considers this to be the "peak" time to target bluefin tuna, mahi, and yellowtail.  With each year before bringing a new twist to the fishery, this season follows suit with a "puddle" of Mahi that leaves the guys scratching their heads. Watch Episode 11 Preview Free on Youtube Today at 9am PT Subscribe to the YouTube channel HERE

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North Carolina Anglers Catch Record-Size 900-Pound Bluefin Tuna

https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/giant-north-carolina-bluefin-tuna/ 

 A monster tuna was recently boated in North Carolina. Captain John Cruise and his crew, including Zack Foster and Aaron Burr, caught a 900-pound bluefin tuna with live bait on December 2. The team of three anglers took turns reeling it in so it doesn’t qualify as the new state record, but by size, it’s the biggest catch ever recorded in the state. It took 5.5 hours for the anglers to reel the big fish in. “I knew it was a giant of a fish, and we were headed for an epic battle when the tuna made a sizzling run of about 600 yards,” Cruise, a retired Marine Corps officer, told Carolina Coast Online. “There was almost nothing we could do except stay in the fight, a down-and-dirty brawl with an immense fish.”

 

The “brawl,” which started in shallow water and ended several miles offshore, cost the crew in gear. Two gaffs pulled out of the fish, the 130-pound-test braided fishing line broke, and a 1,500-pound harpoon line frayed. But they still managed to boat the behemoth.

“We broke two hoists getting the fish inside the [boat],” Cruise said. “But we finally dragged it in headfirst so only about a quarter of the fish was hanging off the stern.”

They weighed the nearly half-ton tuna at New River Marina in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, which posted photos and video of the catch on Facebook shortly after the crew arrived. 

According to the Army Times, the current North Carolina bluefin state record, held by retired Army general Scott Chambers, stands at 877 pounds caught in March 2018. The IGFA bluefin world record belongs to Ken Fraser for a 1,496 tuna caught in Nova Scotia in 1979.

Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’ - East Coast Boat Builders - For West Coast Fisherman

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Canned Tuna - History

 

Canned tuna

Tuna was first canned in the early 20th century. Up until then, the sardine was the only fish placed in cans. But in 1903, a shortfall in the sardine catch off the coast of southern California saw a number of enterprising cannery owners start packing tuna into the empty sardine cans. A new industry was created.

 

Market leaders

THE WWF notes the majority of the market is made up of four species: skipjack alone account for more than half of the global catch of tuna, followed by yellowfin, bigeye, and albacore.

 

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Illegal fishing fleets generate $10 billion in annual sales

 

Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean Project

Contributor

Ian Urbina, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at sea."

 

Illegal fishing fleets generate $10 billion in annual sales

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Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean Project

·Contributor

Mon, October 3, 2022 at 8:15 AM·4 min read

The Thunder. (Simon Arger/Selase Kove-Seyram/Sea Shepherd)

If you look at the taxonomy of crime that plays out offshore, it’s both diverse and acute. And yet illegal fishing sits at the top of that hierarchy. It’s a global business estimated at $10 billion in annual sales, and one that is thriving, as improved technology has enabled fishing vessels to plunder the oceans with greater efficiency.

The Thunder flourished in this context. Interpol had issued a Purple Notice on the ship, the equivalent of adding it to a most wanted list, a designation given to only four other ships in the world up to that time. The vessel had collected over $76 million from the illicit sales of seafood in the past decade, more than any other ship, according to Interpol estimates.

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Banned since 2006 from fishing in the Antarctic, the Thunder had been spotted there repeatedly in the years that followed. In 2015, that’s where the environmental organization Sea Shepherd found it. Speaking through a translator, Peter Hammarstedt, captain of the Bob Barker, warned that the Thunder was banned from fishing in those waters and would be stopped.

It was the beginning of an extraordinary chase and the subject of the second episode of “The Outlaw Ocean” podcast, from CBC Podcasts and the L.A. Times. Listen to it here:

For 110 days and more than 10,000 nautical miles spanning two seas and three oceans, the Bob Barker and a companion ship, both operated by Sea Shepherd, trailed behind the trawler, with the three captains close enough to watch one another’s cigarette breaks and on-deck workout routines. In an epic game of cat-and-mouse, the ships maneuvered through an obstacle course of giant ice floes, endured a cyclone-like storm, faced clashes between opposing crews and nearly collided in what became the longest pursuit of an illegal fishing vessel in history.

As chronicled by the Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization whose reporter was on board the Bob Barker, the chase ended with a distress call from the Thunder. “We’re sinking,” the Thunder’s captain pleaded over the radio. The ships operated by Sea Shepherd rescued the crew and tried gathering evidence of its crimes before the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean.