Is the Bluefin Tuna Doomed?
The people in charge of protecting it seem to doing their best to drive bluefin to extinction. Read this article by noted marine biologist Carl Safina on Yale e360. Money Quote: A 43-nation commission...
View ArticleBluefin Love Story
Below is an interesting NPR podcast with Richard Ellis, author of Tuna: A Love Story. NPR PODCAST: Can the bluefin tuna be saved? Quote: “The tuna is better at what it does than what MIT could possibly...
View ArticleStriper Recap
Every year I participate in a bluefin tuna expedition organized by Jeremy Cameron of Flies and Fins. This year the tuna didn’t show but we put it together on stripers and the recap, plus video, is up...
View ArticleWinter Blues
Unrelated email conversations with Jeremy of Flies and Fins and Michael Gracie of, well, Michael Gracie, brought back the memories of a trip that constituted four days of uninterrupted awesomeness. I...
View ArticleTUNA: Stalking A Maybe
The picture above is grainy but it illustrates the reason why grown men leave home at 3:30 in the morning to be on the water at first light when it’s a cutting 36 degrees, with no respite on an open...
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