Yellow Fin tuna has always been a species that we have a alot of success catching along the South African and Mozambican coastline. The sub tropical waters around the world are home to these migratory and predatory fish.
Yellowfin are often found swimming in schools of Bonnie's and skippies. I would believe it's for protection in numbers.
Yellowfin tuna are relatively easy to target using colorful feathers, bright colored or reflective rapalas and even on bait. They are some of the few fish we can target in the marine reserve without having need for wire traces as they don't have massive teeth like the other game fish we try to fish for.
This summer we hardly had any tuna around and it has been very strange not coming home with sashimi for the family and our cats.
We have had a season with many more sharks than usual that I am sure that would have had a effect on their numbers.
Unfortunately we are also all to aware about the trawlers sneaking into our waters with their long lines to demolish our fish stocks. Not much can be done as corruption plays a big part in governments allowing certain big corporations to get away with these crimes against nature. These long line marine deaths have more than doubled each year and include endangered sharks, turtles and in some cases birds too.
Fishing plays a huge part in our lives here in Mozambique and I wonder what are we going to do when our fish is compley gone? Recreational angler's see it first hand as we come home empty handed more often than not.
I believe that we should never buy fish from big companies but either catch your own or support the small local fisheries who do practice sustainable fishing.
Alot of tuna species are now firmly on the red endangered list and as they are a fast growing species there is absolutely no reason for it to be so other than through greed.
Fish responsibly and put back what you don't need.
Our oceans depends on our choices we make now 😢
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