Found your amazing footage from your X post. What I just watched made me happy and then sad. How awesome are these Blue Fin Tunas, and to hear it’s their first return in 50 years to our beloved Devon coast is brilliant. I believe there would be big money in tourism to see them, the same with our Dolphins and Whale pods yet they use the economic term purely because there’s big companies behind the fishing industries, especially from other countries. I don’t eat fish anymore, haven’t for many a year now, and it’s the easiest way an individual can help to try and protect them, however I do care about the fisherman, and most small family run ones are really good environmentalist to because they know how to look after the areas they fish. It’s the big companies that are the problem.
Absolutely amazing footage- well done. There is film from a few weeks ago off Looe that showed a feeding frenzy of several hundred hammering mackerel. I was recently talking to a angling skipper who has been tagging these for several years (and making good money from big game fishing charters) and is dreading an increase in commercial fishing.
I've been fishing for these for a few years out of Falmouth. All catch & release. Very strictly monitored. The boats all have video to record what's happening and all fish are returned to the water. Fishermen aren't even allowed to touch them by hand. All photos are taken by leaning out of the boat with the fish in the water and subsequently revived by dragging them alongside the boat for many minutes until they're re-oxygenated. They're not returning due to the UK "climate change". Hemingway fished for them from Scarborough (England ) which was a huge tuna fishing hub from the 1920s to 1950s. They're a huge benefit to the local economy in Cornwall, Devon and Ireland from sportsfishing. Much more so than harvesting them for consumption.
Great comment, thanks. Agree that they can be a great benefit to local economy from both sport fishing and nature enthusiasts merely viewing them. Seems as though we have strict regulations in place which licensed boats are adhering to.
Fantastic footage! I'm not saying I'm for or against your message, particularly concerning UK waters. It bears considerable thinking, a slow measured pace, and reasonable oversight. However, Asian boats will certainly wipe the oceans clean if you don't watch them. They almost wiped out the Southern bluefin tuna. Again, great footage and I look forward to more.
Hello Henry, great film, i organize tours to look at their hunting on Atlantic Saury schools just on the edge on Virgin Island in northern Finistère (Brittany, France) people love that kind of watching nature , but the catch and release do kill the tuna most of the time according to fishermen around me, even after long minutes along side of the boat for reoxy'... Same as you , i do prefer watch them but it is a truly f****g good taste 😅
Hey, thanks for the comment, and will look into your company as I'm interested - what's it called please? I was speaking to a scientist only last week who said exactly the same thing - more often than not the tuna will die when released, although it seems not a lot of people know this.
Wonderful film. I see these almoust daily in the South West and have swum with them. The Japanse long liner are a real issue. I am interested to know if a caught and released Tuna could make it back to its shoal without a means of communiating.
I photographed a small group of 6-10 tuna near Start Point lighthouse in late August. They are spectacular to watch. There were walkers down there who almost didn’t believe me that they were seeing tuna from the UK coastline. I have seen the tuna feeding with bottlenose dolphins, and I have seen tuna in Gairloch and to the North of Skye. They are making a strong return to British waters: we must nurture them while they establish themselves.
Simply 'Gorgeous' footage of something so rare and beautiful to experience. What Magnificent simplistic creatures these giant fish are. Think of all the inventions and baggage we humans collect and surround ourselves with, that we think we need to simply survive this life. Compare all of that to these evolutionary marvels of creation. Just breeding, chasing and catching a meal and forever swimming free. Until we disrupt their peaceful existence for mere profit and our own indulgence. So sad. (but I'm not innocent) I have eaten tuna occasionally as well in my lifetime. From a fellow wildlife lover and videographer Great video! 😊👍🙏
@@nbmooselovers this is a great comment and a concept I think about all the time! Although, if technology hadn’t created cameras I wouldn’t be able to do the job I love, so I’m a bit torn 🤔 I think this is why when you go out for a walk and leave all technology at home, you feel great after because you’re going back to what we as humans have been doing for thousands of years 🤷🏼♂️
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Yes...I totally agree. I do love my camera! I am currently getting ready for my yearly fall pilgrimage to my local moose woods. I will be tenting out on public land and sitting in a tree stand just soaking up the sights and sounds of nature. Hoping to catch some big black forms on film. I can't wait! Enjoy your outings as well.. later! 😊👍🙏
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Thank You! I have to work a little harder to find moose these days. I had a side by side for a few years that gave me the mobility to cover more ground. Old bushed in woods roads. But I had to sell it a couple of years ago (hard times). These roads are too narrow for my truck. Tenting out is a bit more work, but I can stay close to my filming areas. I now use my bicycle to travel old woods roads. But its also a lot of fun, quieter and close to my area without having to drive from the cabin every morning. A portable tree stand is a great way to film wildlife. I was a successful bowhunter for 20 years. so I know how to set up a great stealthy opportunity to film. I gave up hunting ten years ago for the camera. When your 10 to 20 feet up. Bears and other smaller critters can't smell you or see you moving and spook. And a moose can't spot you as easy to. Having a big bull just ten feet under you is quite a rush. And a lot safer way to film. And its so peaceful to just sit like a bird on a tree limb and survey your little piece of heaven in fall colors. You can beat it with a stick. Check out my video of last falls trip.( A Mooselovers Pefect Day) I spent the mid day filming odd tree growth patterns in trees for my follow the sun series. And then watched for moose in the evening. I had a tree stand set up in another location. But not in this area. where two young bulls walked up close to me. Enjoy!
Stunning footage @Henry. TV quality indeed and an absolute joy to watch on a large flat screen. They need to be protected, I think most people agree with that. I’m fortunate enough to have a licence for catch and release and everyone I know in a similar position is in agreement that they need protecting. Catching and tagging with all the info being given back to the MMO. I know there is a small quota been given to commercials. I don’t agree with that, but not my decision to make. I do want to say though that I don’t agree with them being critically endangered. There are 10’s of thousands in the uk, which is only a good thing. I have seen different age groups from 50lbs to 300lbs’s, all swimming about together. You’ve got fish from Penzance to Brighton and fish being seen as far north as Yorkshire in the past fortnight, so would suggest the numbers in the uk are in the hundreds of thousands, which is phenomenal to see and long May it continue to grow, as it has done over the past 5 years. The super trawlers are a concern and as soon as the powers that be, get together and stop these life-destroying machines being able to rape and pillage our oceans, then the sooner the better.
Hi Spencer, thanks for the comment. I agree with everything you've said and are in a far more knowledgeable position to comment than myself on how many Tuna are in our waters. From my research, they are not critically endangered as of 2021, but still classed as 'endangered'. Where do you launch from?
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking good morning Henry, thank you for your kind words. The population has flourished in the last few years. I’m based on the Isle of Wight, so midway up the English Channel. For the last two or three years we have seen the odd bust locally, but more fish are evident this year. The farther west you go from us, the more there are. An hour west they are currently about in abundance. West of that, the numbers seem to be colossal and as I mentioned, lots of different year classes about this year, which is great to see.
Great to know, thanks! I saw my first 'bust up' just over a week ago around 2 miles offshore. The Tuna weren't jumping, but they were creating a lot of white water at the surface. I'd estimate the area to be about 4 football pitches in size! I've always wanted to see this up close.
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Well done for seeing your first Bust. It is an incredible sight. You drive around, looking for birds and then, its like, real-life blue-planet, with Gannets, Terns, various gulls, Dolphins, BFT, all in a massive feeding frenzy!! I have some footage on my phone of driving through this type of 'Bust' and seeing the fish topping alongside the boat is pretty spectacular! Im glad that you were able to witness it. Hopefully you had your equipment with you or can get out again soon and get some footage recorded. A real highlight and privilege to see in UK waters, without a doubt.
I am a BFT sport fisherman. Spinning is what I do. Those fish are too big for a landbased fisherman ( we don't use reels with line capacity enough for such a big tuna , and there are more restricctions . Too big by far... amazing work, congrats. Do you know Gibraltar?
Hey, thanks for the comment. Really, I didn't realise they are only able to be caught from a boat. Is this because of the restrictions? Surely you could use the same rod/reel setup from land? I do know Gibraltar! In fact, I was looking at going there next summer! How come?
Why is that sad that they allowed Blue Fin tuna fishing again???? Its a testament that the conservation worked and the population is at a sustainable level!! It worked!!!
The reason the tuna have returned (in the UK at least) is because fishing for the them has been strictly regulated. Why undo all the good work and allow them to be caught and killed again? That's my view anyway.
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking I totally understand, but good conservation especially with the Blue Fin Tuna has proven to be effective!! Balance is good for all!!
Your missing the point.they are still....critically endangered. Yeah,the conservation has worked, and now we are to fuck it up again. Getting a species back up to critically endangered from near extinct....is not sustainable fishing.
Aslong as their numbers are ethically control theres no problem with harvesting them for food.not sure what your problem is.God made them so we can admire his beautiful creation and also for our consumption.great footage 👍
Excellent- however I gather that here and in Eire charter skippers are 'catch and release' only by licence; since there is good demand for this fishing-and good money- I reckon the charter skippers can be best relied upon to keep their area safe from cowboys, far better than thinly-stretched MCA officials
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking sry but all my life I have been told how tuna were almost wiped out and now that they are coming back the fishing industry will go after them again. they have already destroyed most of the seabed now they are coming with their massive hook lines.
Incredible footage. It’s a shame they’re being hunted and killed. They should’ve sanctioned a catch and release fishery. Plenty money to be made that way.
The real shame is there aren't any true Giants left. There was a time when 1,000 lb. plus fish were common. Now a few 700-800 pounders are caught but they're few and far between. Put a price on something and it's soon gone.
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Found your amazing footage from your X post.
What I just watched made me happy and then sad. How awesome are these Blue Fin Tunas, and to hear it’s their first return in 50 years to our beloved Devon coast is brilliant.
I believe there would be big money in tourism to see them, the same with our Dolphins and Whale pods yet they use the economic term purely because there’s big companies behind the fishing industries, especially from other countries. I don’t eat fish anymore, haven’t for many a year now, and it’s the easiest way an individual can help to try and protect them, however I do care about the fisherman, and most small family run ones are really good environmentalist to because they know how to look after the areas they fish. It’s the big companies that are the problem.
Fantastic comment and I agree with everything you have just said. Thanks
Amazing footage Henry and a really important message!
Absolutely amazing footage- well done. There is film from a few weeks ago off Looe that showed a feeding frenzy of several hundred hammering mackerel. I was recently talking to a angling skipper who has been tagging these for several years (and making good money from big game fishing charters) and is dreading an increase in commercial fishing.
Thanks! I have't seen this footage and couldn't find anything on RUclips. Do you have the link please?
Outstanding footage!
@@tobyray2831 thanks for watching Toby Ray 🙂
Great work, I got the chance to see these chases on a fishing trip in Brittany, they are nice to look at but not my idea of fishing.
Thank you for the video, and the MESSAGE!
Nothing to do with sea temperatures. Tuna happily swim in Canadian waters. In fact PEI has some of the biggest.
Fantastic film!
@@willfreeland6134 thanks Will 🙂
Subscirbed after this video.. Breathtaking documentary quality unmatched!
Thanks a lot :)
I've been fishing for these for a few years out of Falmouth.
All catch & release. Very strictly monitored. The boats all have video to record what's happening and all fish are returned to the water. Fishermen aren't even allowed to touch them by hand. All photos are taken by leaning out of the boat with the fish in the water and subsequently revived by dragging them alongside the boat for many minutes until they're re-oxygenated.
They're not returning due to the UK "climate change". Hemingway fished for them from Scarborough (England ) which was a huge tuna fishing hub from the 1920s to 1950s.
They're a huge benefit to the local economy in Cornwall, Devon and Ireland from sportsfishing. Much more so than harvesting them for consumption.
Great comment, thanks. Agree that they can be a great benefit to local economy from both sport fishing and nature enthusiasts merely viewing them. Seems as though we have strict regulations in place which licensed boats are adhering to.
Fantastic film Henry
Fantastic footage! I'm not saying I'm for or against your message, particularly concerning UK waters. It bears considerable thinking, a slow measured pace, and reasonable oversight. However, Asian boats will certainly wipe the oceans clean if you don't watch them. They almost wiped out the Southern bluefin tuna. Again, great footage and I look forward to more.
Thanks :)
Amazing!
Wow, amazing footage
Thanks :)
Wonderful video. We must protect these fish.
@@simonk2184 thanks Simon, and yes we do!
Hello Henry, great film, i organize tours to look at their hunting on Atlantic Saury schools just on the edge on Virgin Island in northern Finistère (Brittany, France) people love that kind of watching nature , but the catch and release do kill the tuna most of the time according to fishermen around me, even after long minutes along side of the boat for reoxy'... Same as you , i do prefer watch them but it is a truly f****g good taste 😅
Hey, thanks for the comment, and will look into your company as I'm interested - what's it called please? I was speaking to a scientist only last week who said exactly the same thing - more often than not the tuna will die when released, although it seems not a lot of people know this.
Amazing footage. It would be great if they became a common sight around our coastline.
Well since they are migratory Cant be very comon
They can be common when go ( for some weeks or months) and return ( for the same time). Or the time the bait fish lasts long.
Fabulous filmmaking and a powerful message Henry. Btw, your buy me a coffee link isn’t working.
Thanks Julian! Ah not sure what happened there, amended the link :)
Verry cool vid. To be honest, as a fisherman I would love to catch one of those from the beach, but release it.
Great footage thank you new sub here 👍
Thanks for the sub!
Wonderful film. I see these almoust daily in the South West and have swum with them. The Japanse long liner are a real issue. I am interested to know if a caught and released Tuna could make it back to its shoal without a means of communiating.
@@Nunn_the_wiser thanks ☺️ good questions on the catch and release Tuna, not sure on the answer to that
They are regularly re-caught (sometimes having grown a lot in the meantime)
Do you know this because they still have the tag on them?
I photographed a small group of 6-10 tuna near Start Point lighthouse in late August. They are spectacular to watch. There were walkers down there who almost didn’t believe me that they were seeing tuna from the UK coastline. I have seen the tuna feeding with bottlenose dolphins, and I have seen tuna in Gairloch and to the North of Skye. They are making a strong return to British waters: we must nurture them while they establish themselves.
We saw a couple of them chasing gar at Slapton sands. First time I've ever seen them.
crazy footage !
Simply 'Gorgeous' footage of something so rare and beautiful to experience. What Magnificent simplistic creatures these giant fish are. Think of all the inventions and baggage we humans collect and surround ourselves with, that we think we need to simply survive this life. Compare all of that to these evolutionary marvels of creation. Just breeding, chasing and catching a meal and forever swimming free. Until we disrupt their peaceful existence for mere profit and our own indulgence. So sad. (but I'm not innocent) I have eaten tuna occasionally as well in my lifetime. From a fellow wildlife lover and videographer Great video! 😊👍🙏
@@nbmooselovers this is a great comment and a concept I think about all the time! Although, if technology hadn’t created cameras I wouldn’t be able to do the job I love, so I’m a bit torn 🤔 I think this is why when you go out for a walk and leave all technology at home, you feel great after because you’re going back to what we as humans have been doing for thousands of years 🤷🏼♂️
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Yes...I totally agree. I do love my camera! I am currently getting ready for my yearly fall pilgrimage to my local moose woods. I will be tenting out on public land and sitting in a tree stand just soaking up the sights and sounds of nature. Hoping to catch some big black forms on film. I can't wait! Enjoy your outings as well.. later! 😊👍🙏
Wow, just watched your intro video to your channel! Will look forward to the video detailing what you have seen!
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Thank You! I have to work a little harder to find moose these days. I had a side by side for a few years that gave me the mobility to cover more ground. Old bushed in woods roads. But I had to sell it a couple of years ago (hard times). These roads are too narrow for my truck. Tenting out is a bit more work, but I can stay close to my filming areas. I now use my bicycle to travel old woods roads. But its also a lot of fun, quieter and close to my area without having to drive from the cabin every morning. A portable tree stand is a great way to film wildlife. I was a successful bowhunter for 20 years. so I know how to set up a great stealthy opportunity to film. I gave up hunting ten years ago for the camera. When your 10 to 20 feet up. Bears and other smaller critters can't smell you or see you moving and spook. And a moose can't spot you as easy to. Having a big bull just ten feet under you is quite a rush. And a lot safer way to film. And its so peaceful to just sit like a bird on a tree limb and survey your little piece of heaven in fall colors. You can beat it with a stick. Check out my video of last falls trip.( A Mooselovers Pefect Day) I spent the mid day filming odd tree growth patterns in trees for my follow the sun series. And then watched for moose in the evening. I had a tree stand set up in another location. But not in this area. where two young bulls walked up close to me. Enjoy!
loved this!
@@luckyalive1 thought you might, fish boyyyy!
Stunning footage @Henry. TV quality indeed and an absolute joy to watch on a large flat screen. They need to be protected, I think most people agree with that. I’m fortunate enough to have a licence for catch and release and everyone I know in a similar position is in agreement that they need protecting. Catching and tagging with all the info being given back to the MMO. I know there is a small quota been given to commercials. I don’t agree with that, but not my decision to make. I do want to say though that I don’t agree with them being critically endangered. There are 10’s of thousands in the uk, which is only a good thing. I have seen different age groups from 50lbs to 300lbs’s, all swimming about together. You’ve got fish from Penzance to Brighton and fish being seen as far north as Yorkshire in the past fortnight, so would suggest the numbers in the uk are in the hundreds of thousands, which is phenomenal to see and long May it continue to grow, as it has done over the past 5 years. The super trawlers are a concern and as soon as the powers that be, get together and stop these life-destroying machines being able to rape and pillage our oceans, then the sooner the better.
Hi Spencer, thanks for the comment. I agree with everything you've said and are in a far more knowledgeable position to comment than myself on how many Tuna are in our waters. From my research, they are not critically endangered as of 2021, but still classed as 'endangered'. Where do you launch from?
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking good morning Henry, thank you for your kind words. The population has flourished in the last few years. I’m based on the Isle of Wight, so midway up the English Channel. For the last two or three years we have seen the odd bust locally, but more fish are evident this year. The farther west you go from us, the more there are. An hour west they are currently about in abundance. West of that, the numbers seem to be colossal and as I mentioned, lots of different year classes about this year, which is great to see.
Great to know, thanks! I saw my first 'bust up' just over a week ago around 2 miles offshore. The Tuna weren't jumping, but they were creating a lot of white water at the surface. I'd estimate the area to be about 4 football pitches in size! I've always wanted to see this up close.
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking Well done for seeing your first Bust. It is an incredible sight. You drive around, looking for birds and then, its like, real-life blue-planet, with Gannets, Terns, various gulls, Dolphins, BFT, all in a massive feeding frenzy!! I have some footage on my phone of driving through this type of 'Bust' and seeing the fish topping alongside the boat is pretty spectacular! Im glad that you were able to witness it. Hopefully you had your equipment with you or can get out again soon and get some footage recorded. A real highlight and privilege to see in UK waters, without a doubt.
AMAZING, WHERE PLEASE ?
Devon :)
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking ENGLAND? CRAZY ALL MY RESPECT!!
I am a BFT sport fisherman. Spinning is what I do. Those fish are too big for a landbased fisherman ( we don't use reels with line capacity enough for such a big tuna , and there are more restricctions . Too big by far... amazing work, congrats.
Do you know Gibraltar?
Hey, thanks for the comment. Really, I didn't realise they are only able to be caught from a boat. Is this because of the restrictions? Surely you could use the same rod/reel setup from land? I do know Gibraltar! In fact, I was looking at going there next summer! How come?
Amazing footage. We definately should not be killing them.
Why is that sad that they allowed Blue Fin tuna fishing again???? Its a testament that the conservation worked and the population is at a sustainable level!! It worked!!!
The reason the tuna have returned (in the UK at least) is because fishing for the them has been strictly regulated. Why undo all the good work and allow them to be caught and killed again? That's my view anyway.
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking I totally understand, but good conservation especially with the Blue Fin Tuna has proven to be effective!! Balance is good for all!!
Your missing the point.they are still....critically endangered. Yeah,the conservation has worked, and now we are to fuck it up again. Getting a species back up to critically endangered from near extinct....is not sustainable fishing.
Aslong as their numbers are ethically control theres no problem with harvesting them for food.not sure what your problem is.God made them so we can admire his beautiful creation and also for our consumption.great footage 👍
Bit of a mixed comment there haha
No way there can be tuna and seals without great white shark's. They simply must be there.
Very unlikely, but not impossible...
@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking the sharks will show up,I believe it.
Excellent- however I gather that here and in Eire charter skippers are 'catch and release' only by licence; since there is good demand for this fishing-and good money- I reckon the charter skippers can be best relied upon to keep their area safe from cowboys, far better than thinly-stretched MCA officials
Completely agree!
Great Footage and may the fishermen and the politicians who approve of this drown in there own piss.
Oooft that took a brutal turn
@@henrykirkwoodfilmmaking sry but all my life I have been told how tuna were almost wiped out and now that they are coming back the fishing industry will go after them again. they have already destroyed most of the seabed now they are coming with their massive hook lines.
Humans thinking about profit not wildlife???
I know strange, normally the other way around
Sport fishing value will always outweigh eating value
Great show until you went all crazy about the fishing
@@20bowhnter about the commercial fishing? I didn’t mention sport fishing so not quite sure which bit you think is crazy 🤣
Well as normal it’s all about greed, PERMITS FOR FISHING BOATS , MONEY MONEY MONEY WONT BE LONG BEFORE THERE ALL WIPED OUT 😡
Incredible footage. It’s a shame they’re being hunted and killed. They should’ve sanctioned a catch and release fishery. Plenty money to be made that way.
The real shame is there aren't any true Giants left. There was a time when 1,000 lb. plus fish were common. Now a few 700-800 pounders are caught but they're few and far between. Put a price on something and it's soon gone.
10euros per kg here in France, cheaper than mackerel this summer
Are the wildlife officials living in another world or don't they understand the words 'critically endangered ' !!?!?
They understand 'profits' and not much else matters