Thanks! I saw how the Bluefin were in danger of being extinct in Naples, Italy on TV years ago. Maybe I can help there when I retire however, you’re doing a great job in Australia! 😎🇺🇸
This isn't actually a documentary -- its just made to look like one. I'm not sure farming these fish is without new problems. Lets take a fish that has one of the largest migration patterns in the world and limit its existence to a tiny pen -- who would think anything could go wrong with that? Also, have there ever been any studies on the effect of catching a fish and then letting it go? I think a fish would be scared to eat after that.
Just stop eating/producing/catching everything all year round let’s go back to the times where we eat produce if it is in season
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Finally! Everyone else is humping their leg. This does not work. Farming animals is the most unregulated industry. Yeah whatever if anyone disagrees. have ever seen any of these operations for real? Salt water animal farming is no different. The expense is high
As a young lad from Port Lincoln going to sea with my father tuna fishing in the 70s and 80s then finally being allowed to get in the racks with the men poling to the introduction of Quota systems and per seine vessels to eventually watching it evolve into the tuna farming methods we see today .......... wow what a journey . I loved every moment of it except when the farming started and the buzz of chasing the catch ended as we knew it. Ultimate respect for this dynamic amazing fish . It’s great to see the numbers increasing again .
Way to go Guys awesome job keep up the great work,each year there coming back 👍👍👍👍 Iam a commercial giant Atlantic blue fin tuna fisherman,we have strict quota 1 fish per boat a day ,works great
I live in Cape Town, South Africa. Post WWII and up to the 1970s we had a pod of huge Bluefins coming into False Bay inside Cape Point. There are photographic records of these specimens. The anglers of yesteryear also spoke of catching young Bluefins from the ledges of Rooikranz during the 70s, possibly earlier. I must reread the books written by Charles Horn to put dates etc. The inside of Cape Point and towards Smitswinkle Bay inside False Bay looks a bit like Hobart, Tasmania in your video. I'm hoping that we will get shoals of Bluefin coming back to False Bay during my lifetime. The big skiboats catch a few Southern Bluefin each year in the deep off Cape Point which they call Big Eye Tunas, I believe its the same species? Our catches here off Cape Point is predominantly Yellowfin and Longfin Tuna. Hoping that those Bluefins might resume their migrational path they had before the overfishing took place. Thank you for your inspirational and well documented video, gives me hope for the future. South African authorities need to come take a few pages out of your guys books, our resources are being plundered and Government seems oblivious to it all.
Weight wise....pound for pound.....Japan is the best fighter.....they didn’t have the industrial might of the US during WW2....but, in the average, they can take on two and a half American per one Japanese....that’s why they’re able to take on America, Australia, and English during their Pacific campaign. Japan has no natural resources....so they had to buy raw materials from other countries and then make it into products to sell worldwide.
As much as I applaud the efforts taken to preserve the BFT , I worry that the o0verfishing of pilchards to feed the ranched fish is unsustainable and will lead to the collapse of both the pilchards stocks and tuna ranching. I have seen over fishing for fertilizer leading to the collapse of fish stocks and it's knock on consequences for the local community.
Great documentary. Not farming, just trapping and feeding ensuring your harvest. It's unsustainable. Govt, longliners and recreational are doing a great job but need to regulate and enforce the black market and Japan. I wish the North Atlantic countries would cooperate with Australia on the Giant bluefin tuna management.
I worked a bit on the data side of fisheries 20 years ago, and the rhetoric from both harvesters and consumers was unreal. Sky high determined demand coupled with dogged determination to cash in on the harvest side. Resistance to monitoring was still widespread. It was no wonder things were looking bad. I was convinced such species were on the way out. Had nothing changed it would have been a sure thing. I shudder to think what it must have been like 40 years ago. I mean even a potato farmer will keep some spuds for next year's harvest. The whole thing affected me negatively and to this day I content myself with a few fishfingers a month and cut myself off from news about the matter. And I'm not extreme. I want to eat fish. It was just that bad and I wanted to salvage what dignity I could. I was in that business, because I knew it could work for everybody willing to work together, and I cared about that. I'm honestly happy to hear there's been buy in by stakeholders and improvement in at least that fishery since. If they hadn't nobody would have anything by this time.
@ I do. I have a pantry full of sardines and herring. They're delicious and much better for the ecosystem than either wild caught or farm raised bluefin.
Hoy mates!! I must say that, even before watching this doc, I had noticed the Japan fish markets were not stressed and suffering! Then I saw this and it explained why. So this is a win/win for all. The fish are coming back and the people are getting all the fish they need! Well done to all involved!! Proving that conservation works if everyone does their part. Remember when the birds of prey (hawks, eagles, etc.) were going extinct in the 60s and 70s? Then rules were put in place and, even though at first there was some unhappy folks, the rules were followed and now certain species that were on the brink are no longer in danger! Here again, even though very different, the fact that conservation worked is blaringly evident!
Besides the Japanese, working with the Chinese is the next major hurtle. They are plundering the oceans around the entire globe. I am in South America and our countries here are constantly catching them fishing illegally ---all the way to Argentina. Not just violating other country's boundaries, but also commercially fishing in violation of all regulations of sustainability.
Awesome job in building an infrastructure that sustains the fishery, more of this needs to be done around the world. Really great video, should be a must see for everyone. Thanks.
What a fantastic story 👍 And told so beautifully, Al 👍👍 Having caught (and released) my first ever SBT just last week, I’m absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to go out and enjoy these rockets of the ocean 😁. And my god 😳 How stunning was that spot you fished in Tassie? 😍😍😍😍😍😍
This documentary like to paint picture as It was Japan's fault for the decrease amount of bluefin. However what they won't tell you is how Australia decimated their population by catching small baby tuna for canned tuna. luna.pos.to/whale/intro_tuna.html "1980s, Australian round haul netter took many young (0 to 2 years old, less than 10kg weight) tunas to produce canned tuna meat and it accelerated depletion of southern bluefin tuna stock. In fact, while quota in tonnage was less than Japan, taking of young tunas by Australia resulted in taking much more number of tunas than Japan "
Great Doco, very interesting watch👍 any insight on the recent run of sbt offshore of port phillip bay? Do you believe this could be a consistent annual run?
They’re totally relaxed huh? What is the alternative? Yeah, there is none. Calm, or death. Paradoxically it’s the calm that will bring them death. You can call wrangling entire schools of tuna out of the ocean “conservation”, but that’s an idiotic idiosyncrasy.
Well done on the doco. Good news for the sbt fishery. But what about the yellowfin tuna in NSW the golden days of the 80s big tuna off eden and bermagui. Is there any hope they will rebound
Such an important story to share. Well told Al. Beautifully filmed and a bit of good news that the world really needs to hear. There are valuable lessons to be learnt here if the fragile balance is to be maintained.
These tunas are required to swim faster which requires a lot more farm space (to get normal oxygen intake like they do in the open ocean) than shown in this documentary. I don't think this farm does any good to these tunas.
Sustainable? My ass. When the boats and the jets are electric, maybe. Nothing right now is sustainable. I run a trout farm which we harvest 50,000 lbs. annually. I'm happy with a 1/1.1 feed to harvest ratio. Cows are closer to 20/1. The point is my feed comes from the ocean as well. Wild stocks keep declining, and their boats rely on fuel too. Nothing is sustainable.
dont like tuna , salmon or rainbow trout dry meat rather eat refin :) Port Lincoln fisheries that 1 guy 10yrs L8tr researching Now breeding growing there own Tuna fry Now everyones breeding them .
I fuckin' love this documentary Al', bloody big thanks mateI know the science, I know the fishery, I know the places and I know the truth of the story the way you represented it. I know the Merimbula and Batman's Bay Offshore Pelagic Fishing Clubs and rarely in articles in fishing magazines over the past 50 years. You have congruence in every memory I have, recreational fishoes, changed their target species and I remember them disappearing and the confusion, mates sold their boats. That was 30 years ago. 9 years ago I watched the boys down at Port Fairy build a Specialist Recreational Southern Bluefin Tuna Commercial fishing Experiencial Adventure Tourist Fishing boat to take a dozen tourists out at once and for everyone to catch a Southern Bluefin Tuna on a Seven Day at sea experiencial adventure. Cool hay! Most excellent doco Bro'.🙏💪🙌🐟🐟🐟🙌💪🙏
This is such a great documentary, thank you Al. I’d love to watch a kingfish documentary next, how commercial fishing decimated them and are now starting to recover. We are tagging 1m kings at the harbour this season consistently, I’ve never seen them this healthy in my 5 years of fishing the harbour
@@almcglashan the charter boys wouldn’t like a doco on the kings around the harbour 😅. It’s probably for the best for everyone to not film a doco on kings while they’re still recovering anyway. Would love to fish with you one day mate, you inspire lots of us fishos!
@@almcglashan agreed mate. They get pillaged along our coasts. I think people forget that we share the same kingfish stocks with other states yet rules are different down south and north. I wonder if there’s a way we can make it all regulated as one
Excellent documentary. Very informative and unbiased (as far as I can tell). The videography and scenery was top-notch and the overall production value was very high. Great job and thank you for all the hard work.
@@almcglashan I doubt this very much,their appetite is insatiable ,left to them they would keep killing them till the last one is gone .And what do they do , nothing .
Al McGlashan Japan has learned to bypass certain laws such as the whaling of endangered whales by stating its for “Research” allowing them to hunt without repercussions the same is said with Russia . The international community needs to put the political gun to their heads if we want those species to survive. Then again Putin can just send his Chechen hitmen to silence those who speak out.
Then again with the rapid decline of Japan birth rates is also good for the tuna leading to less demand in the far future with the older generations vanishing.
Quite a well-put-together effort. Two questions arise, though: how do you cope with the pirate fishermen, those who sail with impoverished or even enslaved crews and recognize neither laws nor borders? And secondly, what IS the spawning life cycle of the SBT? I would really have liked to see what research was being done, and to get at least an overview of the chain in Indonesian waters.
G'day Geoffrey I love to have added more about the life cycle but we just physically couldn’t fit it in. As for slave crews and pirates that’s all high seas stuff and we had no budget for this as this doco was largely self funded.
It's so easy to be negative about So. Bluefin, but you've put together a great doc that shows how well we as nations can really do great things if we really work together. A pleasure to watch, and I hope that US will adapt & use the Australian solutions to our own troubled fisheries. Cheers!
Al this is superb, well done to all involved. We've just had the best start to an SBT season anyone can remember off Fiordland in NZ. Fish in numbers not seen since the 70's
Well, did anybody wondering about Indonesia? Java was the main island in Indonesia, and SBT was just in their southern sea.. why did everybody count only Japan and Australian at the numbers.. lol
This is so underrated. Videos like this should be shown to the world so they can see the dangers we put in to our world that Mother Nature shares with us. There must be a change so we can save our world
They are declining due to men's need.. A nation need for a specific culinary.. A nation that 'colonialized' a culinary worldwide.. Sadly to know this reality 😢
I cant believe people are still eating Bluefin. Big Bluefin have the highest mercury level of any fish in the ocean. I used to eat it a lot but my doctors charts showed my mercury level was off the charts. : (((((
Finally some hope in the world, the total weight limit in Victoria is 160 kg or two fish totalling that weight per person. Seriously why cant it be per boat? Who needs 160 kg of fish to take home?? Thats a ridiculous amount of fish. One of the best docos ive ever seen, it should be reduced to one fish and over 100kg has to be thrown back. Now our government has to get heavy one super trawlers and focus more on the small commercial fisherman. Why we import fish from overseas is beyond me, and I dont understand why humans fish something to the edge of extinction...Japan needs to lift its game, they consume 40+ percent of the annual worlds catch!
great docu, Al is a speaker from the heart, Greed and disrespect, I can tell you as a european aussie, this was the case , just ask/listen to the indigenous mob. take just a few, and biggest isnt always best, Aussies have turned 360 nowdays, the respect i see is truly heartening
Japanese did the same thing in the eighties in Ventura illegally for a few years and ruined our Bonita run. It was one of the biggest in the world. The Japanese used two mile long nets...
Loved it when I was a kid I had the pleasure to go rock hopping with Alen Perry Jon shouthorn and a bunch of legions that keeper the south coast of Australia on the map loved every min of this show 10/10 CAR FISHING IS THE WAY TO GO FOR THE NEXT GENERATION TO EXPERIENCE WAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Wondering Indonesia (especially our southern java people) can start to practice this way of fishing too, so we can start joining to sustain SBT's population too..🙏🏻
I so enjoyed this documentary! I'm currently writing a paper on the bluefin crisis and RFMO response, and this really helped clarify the issue in regards to the Southern bluefin as well as give some perspective past RFMO documents. Thank you for sharing this!
100% of those tuna you let go will die. They already have fatal mouth damage and you choked them by keeping them out of water for 10 minutes. You shoulda just taken them home. It wouldve been more respectful to the ocean.
You couldnt be more wrong mate, but thanks for playing. They have been tagging & recapturing SBT for decades. You clearly know next to nothing about the subject.
Great doco Al! I’m impressed that you didn’t mention the “bloody greenies” even once! Good to see Coops making a cameo appearance at the end! Keep up the good work mate
i'm in southern California, USA and the work that australia and new zealand has done and the pressure they have put on japan has caused a major impact on our fishery over here. We are having some of the best fishing ever here. I love these fish and am so grateful for the international efforts to save these fish. in the US we have not seen bluefin populations at this level in at least 100 years and what is really exciting for me is this year we got the full gamut of bluefin here from 20-400 lbs which to me means we are doing something right as we are getting more and more bluefin here. the only problem is i had to get all new gear the last 5 years as we used to be a 20-40 lbs fish fishery. but i have gotten to get multiple fish of a lifetime and memories with my favorite crews and make a few friends along the way
Nice video mate..How cool is it going to be when those gps data tags get cheap and you can tag and watch your fish on the net in real time for yrs to come, now, that would increase catch and release to the point where any fish you catch will be tagged already...lol..
This was great, as a full time commercial fisherman in Hawaii, Good Fish Management is so important.. Personally i feel the worst thing that can happen to any fish stocks is Net fishing. Fishing Hooks will damage a fishery but will Never wipe it out, Net fishing will in a Very short period of time.. More People need to Practice catch and release..
Japan is a densely populated country, not a city, or a "jurisdiction". An island small nation that has to sustain itself, and cannot rely on a higher responsible party. To feed its population, not big but more dense, Japan relies on the waters around its geography. I think Korea, specifically S. Korea is facing the same challenges. Australia is huge, with a long coastline in waters not shared by another country, except for the area near Indonesia and the area near New Zealand. Although Australia has a vast area that is hostile/uncomfortable to cultivate, the many areas near the long coast offer enough friendly grounds/land to reside and sustain well. Australia is actually quite a recent establishment, for it was the British that sent its citizens there to build and to cultivate a new land only about three centuries ago. Australia still has space for immigrants/new residents. Japan snd Korea not.
I grew up in the fishing sport fishing industry in the late 60's on the East Coast of the USA and watched the commercial netting industry destroy fish and bait stocks. It still has not recovered to a stock pile that it needs to be to keep the commercial and sport fishermen happy. They are cracking down on limits but really just need to shut down the commercial netting industry and crack down on the commercial rod and real fishermen on certain fish for years and limit it a daily fish number per person on rod recreational fishing. If not many of the fishery will not survive and that will effect all the different fish stocks that are interlinked for the next generation of commercial and recreational fishermen. This problem is effecting from open ocean fish to local bottom fishing. It's become a issue of population, pollution and over fishing. 🐟🦈🐠🐙🦂
I don't really get how people can't enjoy these fish through documentaries and underwater photography and not stab a hook through their mouth then reel them onboard by that hook, to take a picture and let it go with a hole stabbed in it's mouth each time......just to somehow enjoy yourself at another creatures expense, pain, and damage. All for a picture and a few minutes of enjoyment recieved from something fighting against you for it's life....even you catch and release anglers don't have to do this.....you simply choose to do it this way like it is somehow more humane to injure the fish with a stabbing hook and removing it temporarily from it's breathable enviroment.....then to outright kill it, when neither are acceptable if it was done to our species
A gorgeous creature that is so amazingly intelligent. When they attack a school of baitfish it is a true feeding frenzy, superb predators that unfortunately tastes delicious which I'm afraid of this fact is going to be their extinction. So sad 😢
Hi Thank you for very much for the great story. What it should be enforced is the ban on tin industry. We should always catch what we need. Japan is the place where the can is not an option. Nice that their population decline. Please keep on improving.
Really good documentary, those stats are tragic, are we learning? Not sure, the fish farms are a really good idea, very impressive solution, their are huge illegal fishing fleets 100s strong out there, the fish don't stand a chance. Really informative, great work, thank you.
@@almcglashan I think the Commission for the Conservation of SBT should be given authority to enforce protection of their fishing policies.Meaning, in open waters where any boat is illegally fishing, they should be able to arrest, confiscate the boat, enforce punishment. Whatever it takes by whatever means necessary. Kind of like a NATO for the oceans. Wishful thinking, I know. From Phoenix, AZ USA
@@almcglashan I think the animals of our world ( on land / in water) are here for all of us to appreciate. If their location puts them in harm's way then the people of that locale should be tasked with protecting them but if they are unable to do this then it should become everyone's problem so that a solution is found that works. For instance, the rhino's in Africa. If the people protecting them can't keep the poachers from killing them then the job of protecting them should be open to anyone ( from any country) that has the ability to get the job done. Don't let any species become critically endangered or extinct because the country where they live was inadequate in protecting them. I'm sure if a request for a solution was put out there on the internet there would be interested parties with enough money to come up with a solution. I was on a govt website for South Africa and they give a monthly report of how many rhinos were lost to poaching. Like it's something they just accept and move on. The site listed the top 10 goals for the year and it was all about growing economically. No mention of doing anything different about the rhino situation. I get it. They are trying to grow to provide a better life for the citizens but if that's the case then hand over the welfare of the rhinos and any other animals they can't be bothered with while they are becoming more economically sound.
Julo sea area in the Philippines,it will grow to 600 to 700 kgs ,larger than the bus,but japanese is afraid to buy,because we are using poison to catch
I worked on a long line tuna boat when I lived at Ulladulla in the boat QUESTION and the skipper was friend of my parents. We would go down to burmagui and fish from there for about a month to get some money to buy things we needed while out at sea. Then we would travel down to Eden and this is where we would go from catching 30-40-50kg yellow fin to either big eye tuna and blue fin tuna. Back then it was 1988-89 that I was doing this and the biggest fish we caught would weigh between 90-130kg was our biggest and that was blue fin and big eye biggest was 120kg and for the 2 months fishing out of eden being the deck boss I was on 16% and the green horns 8 while I was on the boat were on 12-15% depending if they had a go and worked. For the 2 months off eden first month I earned $6,500 and the second I earned $9,000 and for a teenager of 15 the first year earned roughly the same but less than the 2 year and a teenager 16 and 25,000 in the bank none of the other teens that lived there never had money to do what they wanted. In the off season I ended up working with my older brother’s boss gyprocking and I have been plastering since I was 16,5 years old and I’m 49. The thing that got me wanting to get on a boat was my best friend he would fish with his dad and once on the boat and the skipper would say he couldn’t believe that he was lucky enough to get me as a deckhand because I would always ask questions about why he would say do it this way and helping keep the boat maintained and clean inside and out. That’s when you would get asked to go sit with the skipper’s and listen firstly to the stories of the massive fish they had seen but the different things they would notice about their boats and different things they had found easier that they would get so annoyed with their deckies not remembering and one day I said the best line they had heard. I said it would piss me off because every day I would have to train the other deckhand again and I would say can you remember one thing I tell you so the boat operates smoothly and they all started using that line. When I went back to Ulladulla and walked down the warf the other deckhands back then were now skippers and I left there 6,3 tall and 65-70 kg and I was 104kg when I went back and everyone couldn’t believe how much I had changed and I said all I have been doing is plastering and then 10km jog after work and eat dinner and go to boxing gym until 10pm 5 days a week and then either go water skiing all weekend or clubbing Saturday nights. Ulladulla was the best place to grow up and the beaches were awesome.
Hats off to those with the foresight to bring this species back from near extinction. Although once the Chinese start fishing those waters to satisfy the demands of the CCP, with their huge fleets, this work may all collapse. The CCP recognises no restrictions on catches with no intention of preserving fish stocks. The movement across the Pacific of their aggressive fleets with little regard for territorial waters will overshadow the destruction once inflicted, and still ongoing, by the Japanese
Absolutely stunning documentary, glad I found this!
thanks mate appreciate it
Thanks! I saw how the Bluefin were in danger of being extinct in Naples, Italy on TV years ago. Maybe I can help there when I retire however, you’re doing a great job in Australia! 😎🇺🇸
This isn't actually a documentary -- its just made to look like one. I'm not sure farming these fish is without new problems. Lets take a fish that has one of the largest migration patterns in the world and limit its existence to a tiny pen -- who would think anything could go wrong with that?
Also, have there ever been any studies on the effect of catching a fish and then letting it go? I think a fish would be scared to eat after that.
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They catch Southern Blue Fin off the West coast of New Zealand's South Island... and they are monsters..
Thanks for conserving the blue fin tuna, now i had seen big tuna in our port here in Infanta, Philippines ❤
What a cracking good doco, so glad I found this and your channel.
Keep up the great work mate, I'm surprised this doesn't have way more views 👍
Thanks mate
Just stop eating/producing/catching everything all year round let’s go back to the times where we eat produce if it is in season
Finally! Everyone else is humping their leg. This does not work. Farming animals is the most unregulated industry. Yeah whatever if anyone disagrees. have ever seen any of these operations for real? Salt water animal farming is no different. The expense is high
just stop human greed and over population
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Fishing is a lot older than agriculture
Agreed.
Corporate greed will be the death of us!!!
As a young lad from Port Lincoln going to sea with my father tuna fishing in the 70s and 80s then finally being allowed to get in the racks with the men poling to the introduction of Quota systems and per seine vessels to eventually watching it evolve into the tuna farming methods we see today .......... wow what a journey . I loved every moment of it except when the farming started and the buzz of chasing the catch ended as we knew it. Ultimate respect for this dynamic amazing fish . It’s great to see the numbers increasing again .
Way to go Guys awesome job keep up the great work,each year there coming back 👍👍👍👍
Iam a commercial giant Atlantic blue fin tuna fisherman,we have strict quota 1 fish per boat a day ,works great
Id love to come over and film the giants over there such amazing fish!
I live in Cape Town, South Africa.
Post WWII and up to the 1970s we had a pod of huge Bluefins coming into False Bay inside Cape Point. There are photographic records of these specimens.
The anglers of yesteryear also spoke of catching young Bluefins from the ledges of Rooikranz during the 70s, possibly earlier. I must reread the books written by Charles Horn to put dates etc.
The inside of Cape Point and towards Smitswinkle Bay inside False Bay looks a bit like Hobart, Tasmania in your video.
I'm hoping that we will get shoals of Bluefin coming back to False Bay during my lifetime.
The big skiboats catch a few Southern Bluefin each year in the deep off Cape Point which they call Big Eye Tunas, I believe its the same species?
Our catches here off Cape Point is predominantly Yellowfin and Longfin Tuna. Hoping that those Bluefins might resume their migrational path they had before the overfishing took place.
Thank you for your inspirational and well documented video, gives me hope for the future.
South African authorities need to come take a few pages out of your guys books, our resources are being plundered and Government seems oblivious to it all.
Hopefully the numbers continue to improve but they still need to get across the Indian Ocean which is still bait lawless!
Japan is like a miniature of China but 10 times more effective and destructive to the environment. And they can also evolve Pokemons.
Exactly look what they did to our grandads in the war, why sell them our Australian fish.
Good ole China steals your technology fishes your water's but at least they buy your coal. Oops guess not.
Australia is Japanese clay.
Weight wise....pound for pound.....Japan is the best fighter.....they didn’t have the industrial might of the US during WW2....but, in the average, they can take on two and a half American per one Japanese....that’s why they’re able to take on America, Australia, and English during their Pacific campaign. Japan has no natural resources....so they had to buy raw materials from other countries and then make it into products to sell worldwide.
Japan is Definitely not more destructive, it’s nothing like China, that’s a racist comment, your have no clue what your talking about
I must give the Aussies a hand. Very interesting documentary. 👏🏾
As much as I applaud the efforts taken to preserve the BFT , I worry that the o0verfishing of pilchards to feed the ranched fish is unsustainable and will lead to the collapse of both the pilchards stocks and tuna ranching. I have seen over fishing for fertilizer leading to the collapse of fish stocks and it's knock on consequences for the local community.
Great documentary.
Not farming, just trapping and feeding ensuring your harvest. It's unsustainable.
Govt, longliners and recreational are doing a great job but need to regulate and enforce the black market and Japan.
I wish the North Atlantic countries would cooperate with Australia on the Giant bluefin tuna management.
Cooperation is the key but sadly its a rarity
Finally someone sees the truth for what this is
I worked a bit on the data side of fisheries 20 years ago, and the rhetoric from both harvesters and consumers was unreal. Sky high determined demand coupled with dogged determination to cash in on the harvest side. Resistance to monitoring was still widespread. It was no wonder things were looking bad. I was convinced such species were on the way out. Had nothing changed it would have been a sure thing. I shudder to think what it must have been like 40 years ago. I mean even a potato farmer will keep some spuds for next year's harvest. The whole thing affected me negatively and to this day I content myself with a few fishfingers a month and cut myself off from news about the matter. And I'm not extreme. I want to eat fish. It was just that bad and I wanted to salvage what dignity I could. I was in that business, because I knew it could work for everybody willing to work together, and I cared about that. I'm honestly happy to hear there's been buy in by stakeholders and improvement in at least that fishery since. If they hadn't nobody would have anything by this time.
Great documentary. It would be great if people ate less bluefin and ate more of the fish we feed to the bluefin.
There plenty of other fish to eat in the sea
Ok....you do that
@ I do. I have a pantry full of sardines and herring. They're delicious and much better for the ecosystem than either wild caught or farm raised bluefin.
Ehhhh I like my sushi
Mahi mahi is a great tropical fish to eat and they breed incredibly fast.
Hoy mates!! I must say that, even before watching this doc, I had noticed the Japan fish markets were not stressed and suffering! Then I saw this and it explained why. So this is a win/win for all. The fish are coming back and the people are getting all the fish they need! Well done to all involved!! Proving that conservation works if everyone does their part. Remember when the birds of prey (hawks, eagles, etc.) were going extinct in the 60s and 70s? Then rules were put in place and, even though at first there was some unhappy folks, the rules were followed and now certain species that were on the brink are no longer in danger! Here again, even though very different, the fact that conservation worked is blaringly evident!
Its a step in the right direction now we need to work on other species!
Besides the Japanese, working with the Chinese is the next major hurtle. They are plundering the oceans around the entire globe. I am in South America and our countries here are constantly catching them fishing illegally ---all the way to Argentina. Not just violating other country's boundaries, but also commercially fishing in violation of all regulations of sustainability.
When I was a child I was so that sad that everything truly important and exiting to discover had already been discovered. How wrong I was :)
That was great. Thanks for the documentary!
absolute pleasure
hi taku
Awesome job in building an infrastructure that sustains the fishery, more of this needs to be done around the world. Really great video, should be a must see for everyone. Thanks.
Thank you very much!
What a fantastic story 👍 And told so beautifully, Al 👍👍 Having caught (and released) my first ever SBT just last week, I’m absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to go out and enjoy these rockets of the ocean 😁. And my god 😳 How stunning was that spot you fished in Tassie? 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Yeah tassie is amazing
i would hand feed the tuna in the water if given the chance😍😍😍😍
the tuna would probably feed on your hand lol :D
Massive respect to your hard work and dedication al
Just passionate and keen to make it better for fish and fishermen
This documentary like to paint picture as It was Japan's fault for the decrease amount of bluefin. However what they won't tell you is how Australia decimated their population by catching small baby tuna for canned tuna.
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"1980s, Australian round haul netter took many young (0 to 2 years old, less than 10kg weight) tunas to produce canned tuna meat and it accelerated depletion of southern bluefin tuna stock. In fact, while quota in tonnage was less than Japan, taking of young tunas by Australia resulted in taking much more number of tunas than Japan "
As the doco said everyone played a role!
Great Doco, very interesting watch👍 any insight on the recent run of sbt offshore of port phillip bay? Do you believe this could be a consistent annual run?
I am hoping it is thats for sure
They’re totally relaxed huh? What is the alternative? Yeah, there is none. Calm, or death. Paradoxically it’s the calm that will bring them death. You can call wrangling entire schools of tuna out of the ocean “conservation”, but that’s an idiotic idiosyncrasy.
Well done on the doco. Good news for the sbt fishery. But what about the yellowfin tuna in NSW the golden days of the 80s big tuna off eden and bermagui. Is there any hope they will rebound
Keen as just need someone to fund it which is tough!
Such an important story to share. Well told Al. Beautifully filmed and a bit of good news that the world really needs to hear. There are valuable lessons to be learnt here if the fragile balance is to be maintained.
thanks mate
These tunas are required to swim faster which requires a lot more farm space (to get normal oxygen intake like they do in the open ocean) than shown in this documentary.
I don't think this farm does any good to these tunas.
It’s horrible to see how mankind treats and has been treating all creatures, including BFT. Recreational fishing- wtf?
Sustainable? My ass. When the boats and the jets are electric, maybe. Nothing right now is sustainable. I run a trout farm which we harvest 50,000 lbs. annually. I'm happy with a 1/1.1 feed to harvest ratio. Cows are closer to 20/1. The point is my feed comes from the ocean as well. Wild stocks keep declining, and their boats rely on fuel too. Nothing is sustainable.
Bluefin stocks are increasing?
dont like tuna , salmon or rainbow trout dry meat
rather eat refin :) Port Lincoln fisheries that 1 guy 10yrs L8tr researching Now breeding growing there own Tuna fry
Now everyones breeding them .
I fuckin' love this documentary Al', bloody big thanks mateI know the science, I know the fishery, I know the places and I know the truth of the story the way you represented it. I know the Merimbula and Batman's Bay Offshore Pelagic Fishing Clubs and rarely in articles in fishing magazines over the past 50 years. You have congruence in every memory I have, recreational fishoes, changed their target species and I remember them disappearing and the confusion, mates sold their boats. That was 30 years ago. 9 years ago I watched the boys down at Port Fairy build a Specialist Recreational Southern Bluefin Tuna Commercial fishing Experiencial Adventure Tourist Fishing boat to take a dozen tourists out at once and for everyone to catch a Southern Bluefin Tuna on a Seven Day at sea experiencial adventure. Cool hay! Most excellent doco Bro'.🙏💪🙌🐟🐟🐟🙌💪🙏
This is such a great documentary, thank you Al. I’d love to watch a kingfish documentary next, how commercial fishing decimated them and are now starting to recover. We are tagging 1m kings at the harbour this season consistently, I’ve never seen them this healthy in my 5 years of fishing the harbour
Id love to but theyre are so controversial with anglers fighting each other and government depts pretending nothing is wrong!!
@@unstoppablezone4980 cool story bro
@@almcglashan the charter boys wouldn’t like a doco on the kings around the harbour 😅. It’s probably for the best for everyone to not film a doco on kings while they’re still recovering anyway. Would love to fish with you one day mate, you inspire lots of us fishos!
@@xaviersales92 hopefully they do recover but not with the pressure on kingfish stocks these days
@@almcglashan agreed mate. They get pillaged along our coasts. I think people forget that we share the same kingfish stocks with other states yet rules are different down south and north. I wonder if there’s a way we can make it all regulated as one
How is trapping wild fish, feeding them until consuming saving this Tuna? Unless you breed them, it is useless!
amazing animal ... probably hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it the powerhouse of all fish
Perfect title for an outstanding documentary. Hat's off to Al, his team, and everyone involved for saving the SBT!
Thanks mate
Excellent documentary. Very informative and unbiased (as far as I can tell). The videography and scenery was top-notch and the overall production value was very high. Great job and thank you for all the hard work.
Thanks very much I just hope it helps to get everyone together for the tunas sake!!
The Japanese will still be the demise of the Bluefin.
Hopefully this doco shows that if we work together we can change that
@@almcglashan I doubt this very much,their appetite is insatiable ,left to them they would keep killing them till the last one is gone .And what do they do , nothing .
Al McGlashan Japan has learned to bypass certain laws such as the whaling of endangered whales by stating its for “Research” allowing them to hunt without repercussions the same is said with Russia . The international community needs to put the political gun to their heads if we want those species to survive. Then again Putin can just send his Chechen hitmen to silence those who speak out.
Then again with the rapid decline of Japan birth rates is also good for the tuna leading to less demand in the far future with the older generations vanishing.
Quite a well-put-together effort. Two questions arise, though: how do you cope with the pirate fishermen, those who sail with impoverished or even enslaved crews and recognize neither laws nor borders? And secondly, what IS the spawning life cycle of the SBT? I would really have liked to see what research was being done, and to get at least an overview of the chain in Indonesian waters.
G'day Geoffrey I love to have added more about the life cycle but we just physically couldn’t fit it in. As for slave crews and pirates that’s all high seas stuff and we had no budget for this as this doco was largely self funded.
Mate Awesome documentary!!! Great! I love your fishing books too mate! I ave a heap of them! You rock🤙👍🤙👍
Thanks 👍
It's so easy to be negative about So. Bluefin, but you've put together a great doc that shows how well we as nations can really do great things if we really work together. A pleasure to watch, and I hope that US will adapt & use the Australian solutions to our own troubled fisheries. Cheers!
Thanks lets hope its sets the example for more bluefin!
Al this is superb, well done to all involved. We've just had the best start to an SBT season anyone can remember off Fiordland in NZ. Fish in numbers not seen since the 70's
Thanks guys yeah I have been watching all the action and now things have just really kicked off down south here too!!!
I love your videos and I am a Aussie with the last name of McGlashan
We might be related😀
So hi
Bloody good name that😁
@@almcglashan I asked my dad if he knew U, and he said that U were related to his dad or something...I kinda forgot sorry
@@almcglashan Well my dad's name is....
Gregor Richard McGlashan
So U might know him
@@almcglashan my dad said that you are my grandpa's brother's son
@@k9aussie898 cool Ill chase it up !
Well, did anybody wondering about Indonesia? Java was the main island in Indonesia, and SBT was just in their southern sea.. why did everybody count only Japan and Australian at the numbers.. lol
This is so underrated. Videos like this should be shown to the world so they can see the dangers we put in to our world that Mother Nature shares with us. There must be a change so we can save our world
I wish sad they only promote the doom and gloom vids instead of what we are doing right!
They are declining due to men's need.. A nation need for a specific culinary.. A nation that 'colonialized' a culinary worldwide.. Sadly to know this reality 😢
Well the information you have is complete B.S do some better research.
I cant believe people are still eating Bluefin. Big Bluefin have the highest mercury level of any fish in the ocean. I used to eat it a lot but my doctors charts showed my mercury level was off the charts. : (((((
I thought this was going to be a documentary about the fishing capital of Australia.
Finally some hope in the world, the total weight limit in Victoria is 160 kg or two fish totalling that weight per person. Seriously why cant it be per boat? Who needs 160 kg of fish to take home?? Thats a ridiculous amount of fish. One of the best docos ive ever seen, it should be reduced to one fish and over 100kg has to be thrown back. Now our government has to get heavy one super trawlers and focus more on the small commercial fisherman. Why we import fish from overseas is beyond me, and I dont understand why humans fish something to the edge of extinction...Japan needs to lift its game, they consume 40+ percent of the annual worlds catch!
Those bluefins are exactly aware of what's happening...the look in their eyes when they get caught and hooked...😢
great docu, Al is a speaker from the heart, Greed and disrespect, I can tell you as a european aussie, this was the case , just ask/listen to the indigenous mob. take just a few, and biggest isnt always best, Aussies have turned 360 nowdays, the respect i see is truly heartening
thanks for the complete story and its players i hope everyone is a winner i was trying to imagine a fully recovered fishery
Its a good example of everyone working together so lets hope it catches on!
Thanks to all that save the tuna, for the world, china has to du it’s part and not over fish.
Japanese did the same thing in the eighties in Ventura illegally for a few years and ruined our Bonita run. It was one of the biggest in the world. The Japanese used two mile long nets...
Loved it when I was a kid I had the pleasure to go rock hopping with Alen Perry Jon shouthorn and a bunch of legions that keeper the south coast of Australia on the map loved every min of this show 10/10 CAR FISHING IS THE WAY TO GO FOR THE NEXT GENERATION TO EXPERIENCE WAT ITS ALL ABOUT
Wondering Indonesia (especially our southern java people) can start to practice this way of fishing too, so we can start joining to sustain SBT's population too..🙏🏻
It would be nice to see a few more countries join thats for sure
awesome! Im coming out with a bluefin tuna pendant soon!
I so enjoyed this documentary! I'm currently writing a paper on the bluefin crisis and RFMO response, and this really helped clarify the issue in regards to the Southern bluefin as well as give some perspective past RFMO documents. Thank you for sharing this!
pleasure Kate it was certainly an eyeopener producing it
Love it from a fellow fisherman’s point of view instead of some vegan telling me to stop fishing because it’s cruel🤣 tell that to a shark.
I couldn’t agree more but I am biased!!
100% of those tuna you let go will die. They already have fatal mouth damage and you choked them by keeping them out of water for 10 minutes. You shoulda just taken them home. It wouldve been more respectful to the ocean.
You couldnt be more wrong mate, but thanks for playing. They have been tagging & recapturing SBT for decades. You clearly know next to nothing about the subject.
Great Film. Great photography. Very informative. Keep up the good work.
Thanks mate
Great doco Al! I’m impressed that you didn’t mention the “bloody greenies” even once! Good to see Coops making a cameo appearance at the end! Keep up the good work mate
I struggled I tell you 😁
Cracking doco Al, thanks to all the passionate participants to correct what we have nearly destroyed.
Yeah I just hope we can do the same for other species
Ikan paling enak gurih dan banyak disukai
Please do one on the kingfish traps and the YFT off the peak, would love to know more about if we can bring it back to what it once was.
Keen as if we can get someone to fund it!
This video makes me hungry for Tuna 🍣
Great great film i love fish more than people lol
i'm in southern California, USA and the work that australia and new zealand has done and the pressure they have put on japan has caused a major impact on our fishery over here. We are having some of the best fishing ever here. I love these fish and am so grateful for the international efforts to save these fish. in the US we have not seen bluefin populations at this level in at least 100 years and what is really exciting for me is this year we got the full gamut of bluefin here from 20-400 lbs which to me means we are doing something right as we are getting more and more bluefin here. the only problem is i had to get all new gear the last 5 years as we used to be a 20-40 lbs fish fishery. but i have gotten to get multiple fish of a lifetime and memories with my favorite crews and make a few friends along the way
Its awesome what we can achieve when the country’s come together I reckon to make fishing better!
Wait till the Chinese and Indians get into the mix………
@@articlered2334Chinese pirate fishing is a massive problem already
Amazing story!
Greetings from Croatia! :)
thanks buddy
Nice video mate..How cool is it going to be when those gps data tags get cheap and you can tag and watch your fish on the net in real time for yrs to come, now, that would increase catch and release to the point where any fish you catch will be tagged already...lol..
I am hanging for technology to catch up!
Fish gets tagged with a $6k tag. 2 weeks later it eats the wrong sardine and becomes sashimi for some wild mate and his lads
Where did that happen?
@@almcglashan it didn't, i was just saying with their ravenous nature it would be comedic but unfortunate if one got caught soon after being tagged.
This was great, as a full time commercial fisherman in Hawaii, Good Fish Management is so important.. Personally i feel the worst thing that can happen to any fish stocks is Net fishing. Fishing Hooks will damage a fishery but will Never wipe it out, Net fishing will in a Very short period of time.. More People need to Practice catch and release..
Yeah good fisheries management is the key to a healthy ocean thats for sure
absolutely the best ever documentary Ive come across...great job and stellar production!
Cheers mate appreciate it
Great documnetary.. hard work paid off..
thanks mate there was definitely lots of hard work!
Best documentary I’ve ever watched on youtube, just awesome Al 👌🏼😎
Deepest respect and gratitude from the UK 🇬🇧👍🏼😉🐟
Thanks heaps appreciate it!
Awesome true story documentary, some well needed good news
yeah we certainly need some good news in the ocean
Much respect from someone who has enjoyed the SBT recreational fishery in NZ that we opened our eyes to in the last decade
Thanks mate appreciate it
Japan is a densely populated country, not a city, or a "jurisdiction". An island small nation that has to sustain itself, and cannot rely on a higher responsible party. To feed its population, not big but more dense, Japan relies on the waters around its geography. I think Korea, specifically S. Korea is facing the same challenges.
Australia is huge, with a long coastline in waters not shared by another country, except for the area near Indonesia and the area near New Zealand. Although Australia has a vast area that is hostile/uncomfortable to cultivate, the many areas near the long coast offer enough friendly grounds/land to reside and sustain well. Australia is actually quite a recent establishment, for it was the British that sent its citizens there to build and to cultivate a new land only about three centuries ago. Australia still has space for immigrants/new residents. Japan snd Korea not.
I grew up in the fishing sport fishing industry in the late 60's on the East Coast of the USA and watched the commercial netting industry destroy fish and bait stocks. It still has not recovered to a stock pile that it needs to be to keep the commercial and sport fishermen happy. They are cracking down on limits but really just need to shut down the commercial netting industry and crack down on the commercial rod and real fishermen on certain fish for years and limit it a daily fish number per person on rod recreational fishing. If not many of the fishery will not survive and that will effect all the different fish stocks that are interlinked for the next generation of commercial and recreational fishermen. This problem is effecting from open ocean fish to local bottom fishing. It's become a issue of population, pollution and over fishing. 🐟🦈🐠🐙🦂
I don't really get how people can't enjoy these fish through documentaries and underwater photography and not stab a hook through their mouth then reel them onboard by that hook, to take a picture and let it go with a hole stabbed in it's mouth each time......just to somehow enjoy yourself at another creatures expense, pain, and damage. All for a picture and a few minutes of enjoyment recieved from something fighting against you for it's life....even you catch and release anglers don't have to do this.....you simply choose to do it this way like it is somehow more humane to injure the fish with a stabbing hook and removing it temporarily from it's breathable enviroment.....then to outright kill it, when neither are acceptable if it was done to our species
Beautiful documentary,no words.
Thank you
Yeah, built for LIFE, "IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN", IN THE OCEAN, NOT A JAIL CELL PEN!!! ANYBODY SEE THE DIFFERENCE HERE BESIDES ME???
A gorgeous creature that is so amazingly intelligent. When they attack a school of baitfish it is a true feeding frenzy, superb predators that unfortunately tastes delicious which I'm afraid of this fact is going to be their extinction. So sad 😢
Hi Thank you for very much for the great story. What it should be enforced is the ban on tin industry. We should always catch what we need. Japan is the place where the can is not an option. Nice that their population decline. Please keep on improving.
Damn, I know those would taste great;
So sad...... i don't even what to express myself at how this monopoly effects the everyday fisherman. Its disgusting.
recreational anglers in Australia can access them which is great why would it be bad?
Really good documentary, those stats are tragic, are we learning?
Not sure, the fish farms are a really good idea, very impressive solution, their are huge illegal fishing fleets 100s strong out there, the fish don't stand a chance.
Really informative, great work, thank you.
You are certainly right about the illegal fishing fleets except there are 100s there are 1000s on the high seas sadly
@@almcglashan I think the Commission for the Conservation of SBT should be given authority to enforce protection of their fishing policies.Meaning, in open waters where any boat is illegally fishing, they should be able to arrest, confiscate the boat, enforce punishment. Whatever it takes by whatever means necessary. Kind of like a NATO for the oceans. Wishful thinking, I know. From Phoenix, AZ USA
@@kimboss4190 I reckon its a great in theory but on the high seas anything roles and some countries just don’t give a damn
@@almcglashan I think the animals of our world ( on land / in water) are here for all of us to appreciate. If their location puts them in harm's way then the people of that locale should be tasked with protecting them but if they are unable to do this then it should become everyone's problem so that a solution is found that works. For instance, the rhino's in Africa. If the people protecting them can't keep the poachers from killing them then the job of protecting them should be open to anyone ( from any country) that has the ability to get the job done. Don't let any species become critically endangered or extinct because the country where they live was inadequate in protecting them. I'm sure if a request for a solution was put out there on the internet there would be interested parties with enough money to come up with a solution. I was on a govt website for South Africa and they give a monthly report of how many rhinos were lost to poaching. Like it's something they just accept and move on. The site listed the top 10 goals for the year and it was all about growing economically. No mention of doing anything different about the rhino situation. I get it. They are trying to grow to provide a better life for the citizens but if that's the case then hand over the welfare of the rhinos and any other animals they can't be bothered with while they are becoming more economically sound.
Julo sea area in the Philippines,it will grow to 600 to 700 kgs ,larger than the bus,but japanese is afraid to buy,because we are using poison to catch
Hold on just one minute.
OK I'm back. I had to go and do my part of eating this delicious fish into oblivion TORO TORO TORO I shout
I worked on a long line tuna boat when I lived at Ulladulla in the boat QUESTION and the skipper was friend of my parents. We would go down to burmagui and fish from there for about a month to get some money to buy things we needed while out at sea. Then we would travel down to Eden and this is where we would go from catching 30-40-50kg yellow fin to either big eye tuna and blue fin tuna. Back then it was 1988-89 that I was doing this and the biggest fish we caught would weigh between 90-130kg was our biggest and that was blue fin and big eye biggest was 120kg and for the 2 months fishing out of eden being the deck boss I was on 16% and the green horns 8 while I was on the boat were on 12-15% depending if they had a go and worked. For the 2 months off eden first month I earned $6,500 and the second I earned $9,000 and for a teenager of 15 the first year earned roughly the same but less than the 2 year and a teenager 16 and 25,000 in the bank none of the other teens that lived there never had money to do what they wanted. In the off season I ended up working with my older brother’s boss gyprocking and I have been plastering since I was 16,5 years old and I’m 49. The thing that got me wanting to get on a boat was my best friend he would fish with his dad and once on the boat and the skipper would say he couldn’t believe that he was lucky enough to get me as a deckhand because I would always ask questions about why he would say do it this way and helping keep the boat maintained and clean inside and out. That’s when you would get asked to go sit with the skipper’s and listen firstly to the stories of the massive fish they had seen but the different things they would notice about their boats and different things they had found easier that they would get so annoyed with their deckies not remembering and one day I said the best line they had heard. I said it would piss me off because every day I would have to train the other deckhand again and I would say can you remember one thing I tell you so the boat operates smoothly and they all started using that line. When I went back to Ulladulla and walked down the warf the other deckhands back then were now skippers and I left there 6,3 tall and 65-70 kg and I was 104kg when I went back and everyone couldn’t believe how much I had changed and I said all I have been doing is plastering and then 10km jog after work and eat dinner and go to boxing gym until 10pm 5 days a week and then either go water skiing all weekend or clubbing Saturday nights. Ulladulla was the best place to grow up and the beaches were awesome.
What do we expect with mankind becoming more greedy and greedy with everything without showing any appreciation and thankfulness to God
The Southern Bluefin Tuna, and all Animals on Earth could become extinct like the Passenger Pigeon.
Al McGlashan Lot's of love from Darjeeling, India.,.very informative reel.....more expected....mate..,
Great. Good luck always brother
Humans are way too selfish and dumb and if they do anything to benefit the fish it's actually to benefit themselves and to fill their pockets .
this video is beautiful, but the male voice (voiceover) is not well chosen unfortunately / really does not fit the whole.
China and north korea obviously not playing ball. 😢 they just take and don't give a crap.
Great Video great to see everybody wants to see such a beautiful fish prosper
Glad you enjoyed it
So wait a second. It's warm blooded but smells like a fish. Nevermind.
Hats off to those with the foresight to bring this species back from near extinction. Although once the Chinese start fishing those waters to satisfy the demands of the CCP, with their huge fleets, this work may all collapse. The CCP recognises no restrictions on catches with no intention of preserving fish stocks. The movement across the Pacific of their aggressive fleets with little regard for territorial waters will overshadow the destruction once inflicted, and still ongoing, by the Japanese
Hopefully commonsense will prevail rather than sort term profit at the cost of this amazing tuna