How to catch giant bluefin tuna

by: Jürgen Oeder
Canadian Skippers are experts in catching giant bluefin tuna in the Atlantic. This clip shows how:

Tuna fishing off Mallorca

by: Jürgen Oeder
The north of Mallorca, that is mild climate, nice people, a picturesque landscape - and great tuna fishing! The following video, shot on the MAD Max by Capt. Vince Riera, shows how exciting and beautiful big game fishing can be....

Croatia: Winter fishing for Amberjack.

by: Jürgen Oeder
Zirje for Amberjacks in winter: shaggy cats, hardly any people, a small warm kitchen making the best food, big fish and a yellow postal service van that takes me to the boat. That was my short short holiday on the...

Road Trip from 1001 Nights

by: Jürgen Oeder
By Marc Inoue The Arabian peninsula is more or less a white spot on the world's fishing map, with the exception of a small island group in southern Oman, the Hallaniyat islands. This area has made a name for itself...

Pentecost in Mallorca

by: Jürgen Oeder
A short Pentecost holiday in Alcudia, Mallorca with my girlfriend Elke is almost a ritual. And this time a special pleasure, because skipper Toni Rieira and his brother Vinz invited me to inaugurate their new boat. It is a beautiful...

New Spawning Grounds of Bluefin Discovered off the USA

by: Jürgen Oeder
Off the northeast coast of the United States, scientists have detected new spawning grounds of bluefin tuna. The discovery that especially smaller tuna in the class from 80 to 500 lb spawn there while the larger ones head to the...

Bluefin tuna can go hungry in a sea of plenty

by: Jürgen Oeder
Bluefin tuna are going hungry in a sea full of fish because their foraging habits are most efficient with larger, not necessarily more abundant prey, according to a study led by by Walter Golet, assistant research professor in the School...

Cold hearted bluefin tuna

by: Jürgen Oeder
Bluefin tuna can keep their hearts pumping during temperature changes that would stop a human heart: Adrenalin is the triggering key factor. Scientists at the University of Manchester and at Stanford University in the USA discovered that adrenalin keeps the...

Bluefin tuna stock biomass underestimated

by: Jürgen Oeder
Scientific studies have clarified that the equation relating the size and weight of the eastern Bluefin tuna stock (including the Mediterranean one) underestimates the actual weight up to 12.5 per cent for larger specimens. This is bad news for purse...

Croatia intends tuna quota for recreational anglers

by: Jürgen Oeder
Croatia intends a bluefin tuna quota for recreational anglers in the forthcoming season from 15th of June to 15th of October. Bag limit is one fish per angling day and minimum size is 150 cm. Caught bluefin tu Croatia intends...