Off to the mountains this week for snowboading-Yeehaaa-cant wait to get
08-19-2008, 01:19 AM
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Off to the mountains this week for snowboading-Yeehaaa-cant wait to get
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the beast back on the road-I have parked the A8 up while selling but will spin the kms this weekend as my son has a scouts ski weekend where I will be "parent help".Good excuse for a drive and a day boarding."God I hate snow"
Last weekend also went through the mountains to our West Coast for a fishing trip Big game charter for Giant Blue Fin Tuna
Caught Seven of these beautiful fish ranging from 240kg to 280 kg and over 9ft long as well as a good sized shark.
"God I hate fishing" lol
My wife still loves me even when I'm not there
the beast back on the road-I have parked the A8 up while selling but will spin the kms this weekend as my son has a scouts ski weekend where I will be "parent help".Good excuse for a drive and a day boarding."God I hate snow"
Last weekend also went through the mountains to our West Coast for a fishing trip Big game charter for Giant Blue Fin Tuna
Caught Seven of these beautiful fish ranging from 240kg to 280 kg and over 9ft long as well as a good sized shark.
"God I hate fishing" lol
My wife still loves me even when I'm not there
08-19-2008, 05:18 AM
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I know who is having tuna steaks for dinner...for the next 14 yrs. either that or...
sell it to Japan...you could buy a brand new S8 for the money you'd get for those babies! Nice fish!
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08-19-2008, 08:09 AM
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Ah, the magnificent bluefin! It would be so cool...
...if our kids and grandkids could see 'em. Sorry, not trying to rain on anyone's parade, swear to god I'm not. That trip musta been fun, I loves fun, but I'm an empty shell of a man if I don't inject a realistic counternote here:
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Those are Atlantic Ocean numbers, but they're similar the world over. Even the most ardent sportfishermen acknowledge that bluefin stocks have been driven down over 95% in the last fifty years. That's not "over 95% of the way to some abstract place", it's "over 95% of the way to absolute extinction of the species". "Critically endangered" is the phrase used by the World Wildlife Fund and any other knowledgable scientist to describe the status of one of our planet's most amazing creatures.
Honestly, I'm not trying to be a dick, not to our friend in Kiwiland, not to the forum in general, not to anyone. I know it's a car forum and all, and I know how tremendously unpopular it can make one to insert sobering facts about anything at all, whether they're about politics or wars or fish.
But facts are good. Without them, we couldn't raise a glass to our friend Doug when he lobs a scientific probe at a planet over 400,000,000 miles away and hits it, because facts are what he uses to do that. Facts build our cars. Facts make the funk come out the stereos in 'em.
And the facts about bluefin, and every other game and food fish, are truly startling. I've been studying this stuff since I was a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska a quarter of a century ago. Almost every bluefin caught, Southern Ocean or Atlantic, goes to Japan for sashimi. The bluefin, and the oceans in general, are very close to fished out. We're trashfishing now, and soon we won't even be able to do that.
I'm not busting our friend's chops. I'm dead certain he doesn't know how far gone the bluefin is. I'm just sticking my neck out to put a fact or two on the table. Because there are a lot of young fellows in this forum these days. Because we all have a responsibility to our kids to hand them a world that makes some sense. Fishing every major game and food fish into extinction, that's Babylon. Yeah, you can sell one bluefin and buy a new D3 S8, and when they're 99% gone instead of 97% gone, there will be a long line of Japanese guys waiting, ready, willing, and able to trade you a low mileage Enzo for one. It's still Babylon. Bankrupting our government and feeding our kids into a meat grinder to fight a war founded on knowing lies, the fraudulent promulgation of which constitutes nothing less than treason, that's Babylon, too. Someone gots to say so. Even over beers, like this. Maybe especially over beers.
Your ridiculous advocate for a peaceful planet and an ocean full of lovely creatures,
BW
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Those are Atlantic Ocean numbers, but they're similar the world over. Even the most ardent sportfishermen acknowledge that bluefin stocks have been driven down over 95% in the last fifty years. That's not "over 95% of the way to some abstract place", it's "over 95% of the way to absolute extinction of the species". "Critically endangered" is the phrase used by the World Wildlife Fund and any other knowledgable scientist to describe the status of one of our planet's most amazing creatures.
Honestly, I'm not trying to be a dick, not to our friend in Kiwiland, not to the forum in general, not to anyone. I know it's a car forum and all, and I know how tremendously unpopular it can make one to insert sobering facts about anything at all, whether they're about politics or wars or fish.
But facts are good. Without them, we couldn't raise a glass to our friend Doug when he lobs a scientific probe at a planet over 400,000,000 miles away and hits it, because facts are what he uses to do that. Facts build our cars. Facts make the funk come out the stereos in 'em.
And the facts about bluefin, and every other game and food fish, are truly startling. I've been studying this stuff since I was a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska a quarter of a century ago. Almost every bluefin caught, Southern Ocean or Atlantic, goes to Japan for sashimi. The bluefin, and the oceans in general, are very close to fished out. We're trashfishing now, and soon we won't even be able to do that.
I'm not busting our friend's chops. I'm dead certain he doesn't know how far gone the bluefin is. I'm just sticking my neck out to put a fact or two on the table. Because there are a lot of young fellows in this forum these days. Because we all have a responsibility to our kids to hand them a world that makes some sense. Fishing every major game and food fish into extinction, that's Babylon. Yeah, you can sell one bluefin and buy a new D3 S8, and when they're 99% gone instead of 97% gone, there will be a long line of Japanese guys waiting, ready, willing, and able to trade you a low mileage Enzo for one. It's still Babylon. Bankrupting our government and feeding our kids into a meat grinder to fight a war founded on knowing lies, the fraudulent promulgation of which constitutes nothing less than treason, that's Babylon, too. Someone gots to say so. Even over beers, like this. Maybe especially over beers.
Your ridiculous advocate for a peaceful planet and an ocean full of lovely creatures,
BW
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08-19-2008, 10:12 AM
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Ohbw I am very aware of this and we kept only one fish and sattalite tagged the rest
We have an excellent programm here that is designed to replenish the blue fin stock [big ask I know] and I agree that it is important to conserve but I was very happy to have my turn on the rod knowing that only one fish would be kept.
My children now have seen these wonderful beasts and my vegetarian daughter was grossed out she was still impressed by Dads big weekend
Our fisheries dept encourage the tagging release by issuing a certificate for tagged fish so the angler has at least something tangable to take home.
The Skipper was very definitive about the value of the programm
My children now have seen these wonderful beasts and my vegetarian daughter was grossed out she was still impressed by Dads big weekend
Our fisheries dept encourage the tagging release by issuing a certificate for tagged fish so the angler has at least something tangable to take home.
The Skipper was very definitive about the value of the programm