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Tuna Season
updated: Aug 15, 2012, 4:03 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

When was the last time Tuna was caught in or around the local channel islands? Is there a decent Tuna season anymore?

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COMMENT 308754	2012-08-15 04:12 PM
You might want to call Sea Landing for that one.
DILLYDALLY	2012-08-15 04:24 PM
I got into some Albacore 40 miles off the back of Miguel about a decade ago... There is no commercial or sport fishery for Tuna out of Santa Barbara. Moro and San Diego are the closest options.
COMMENT 308765	2012-08-15 04:27 PM
Doubtful....all the old people who are now stonch Environmentalist.....they caught and ate them ALL!
COMMENT 308781	2012-08-15 05:03 PM
I believe the bonito would qualify as a tuna. It is sometimes called the Laguna Tuna. Years ago we had massive schools of them. It was impressive to get into a ten acre patch of leaping bonito. They were very tasty as smoked fish. The commercial fishermen wiped them out about twenty years ago. There are certainly occasional fish now.
COMMENT 308798	2012-08-15 05:29 PM
They've been catching tuna up at Avila and Moro Bay. Friends just caught a few last week. You can check the fish counts with local boats and contact the Sea Landing. I'd hive you websites but not allowed to do so here.
COMMENT 308800	2012-08-15 05:35 PM
Morro (two R's)
COMMENT 308801	2012-08-15 05:35 PM
Mostly Albacore are caught out of SB, but it is usually a long haul to the escarpment, Rodrequz Sea Mount or 311 on the back side of Rosa - still too early in the season for them around here. Head south to Sandy Eggo for bluefin and yellowfin or north to Monterey for Albies galore. Albies have been slow the past few years, but we have still had some great days
COMMENT 308820P	2012-08-15 06:36 PM
Never could understand fishermen/women... they don't want any regulations, yet when all the fish are gone they can't understand where all the fish went, uhhh, maybe you caught them all and forgot to leave some to reproduce. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
COMMENT 308827P	2012-08-15 07:03 PM
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I noticed that not one single person mentioned that in May, out of 15 Tuna caught in San Diego, all 15 tested positive for Cesium 134 (Half Life of 2 years) & 137 from the melt-downs at Fukushima. The Tuna migrated all the way from Japan, through the Pacific. Go ahead and google this yourselves. You will be told that the levels are small. According to a expert in treating childhood cancer, there is no such thing as safe levels of Cesium and you should not consume tuna any longer. It was my favorite food and I am devastated, but unless anyone knows of a tuna that does not migrate through the Pacific -should we be eating this? I don't know (neither my doctor or vet are eating it).
COMMENT 308829	2012-08-15 07:06 PM
308815 ,The guy catches/kills all these tuna and does not keep any? only one for fertilizer? huh?? This is part of the problem!
COMMENT 308832	2012-08-15 07:13 PM
827P, I'd rather trust people who are educated in radioactive materials (nuclear scientists, etc.) than a cancer expert. Not that I'm discounting a medical professional who has put in a lot of time educating themselves in their own field, but... Yeah. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/28/us-japan-nuclear-tuna-idUSBRE84R0MF20120528 Here's a Reuters article from earlier in this year that I think you're referencing. There's some statistics in there, too, including the aforementioned half-life of Cesium 134. 5bq per tuna is an amount so small as to be... well, is there something less than "negligible"? Completely harmless?
COMMENT 308835	2012-08-15 07:29 PM
Overfishing anyone? It's happening around your neighborhood and all around the globe. Duh.
COMMENT 308847	2012-08-15 08:43 PM
827p Bingo! It is cumulative.
COMMENT 308849	2012-08-15 08:48 PM
SY thanks for helping to dispell uninformed rad-hysteria. There are trace amounts of everything in everything!
COMMENT 308856P	2012-08-15 10:53 PM
You can thank fish and game. Whoever ran the the fish and game in California in the 60ties and 70ties were loosers. They must of been to busy parting and drinking. Because they flushed it all down the toilet. The Bonita, the Ablone, yellowfin, and the swordfish are all gone. Yes it was a case of grossly mismanagement.
COMMENT 308880P	2012-08-16 07:58 AM
The fishermen were running Fish and Game, along with the hunters. The fox was watching the hen house...and largely still is, both Outside and on Wall St.
CYCAD	2012-08-16 10:27 AM
I don't know about Cesium, but yesterday we dined on fresh albacore tuna caught in Monterey. This was provided by http://www.communityseafood.com/

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