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<\/p>\nby Walt Golet<\/b><\/p>\n
PORTLAND, ME \u2013\u00a0 So June 1 has come and gone, which means bluefin tuna season is here.<\/p>\n
While many of us are familiar with the migratory patterns of bluefin tuna that bring them to the Gulf of Maine each summer to feed, some of the more interesting secrets about their life history \u2013 growth, age and stock structure, foraging, energetics, migratory patterns \u2013 still remain unresolved.<\/p>\n
These aspects of bluefin life history are critical to understand the bluefin tuna population and manage it effectively across the entire Atlantic.<\/p>\n
For decades, US bluefin tuna fishermen have understood the importance of collaborative research and have led the way with cutting edge research directed at furthering our understanding for these critical life history parameters.<\/p>\n
Recently, the broader Atlantic community also recognized those research needs, and beginning…<\/p>\n
MADRID, SPAIN \u2013 The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) Bluefin Tuna Species (BFT) Group will hold its intersessional meeting July 25-29 at the secretariat offices in Madrid to discuss data needs and review existing data in preparation for the 2017 stock assessment.<\/p>\n
The secretariat concluded in June that although there have been two data preparatory meetings, the Standing Committee for Research and Statistics will not be able to perform a <\/b>stock assessment in 2016.<\/p>\n
This is the second time the BFT stock assessment has been delayed.<\/p>\n
In 2014, the scheduled assessment was delayed due to a lack of resources to prepare new data acquired under the Atlantic-wide Research Programme for Bluefin Tuna (GBYP) and conduct an update assessment…<\/p>\n
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WALPOLE, ME \u2013 When Dave Mason talks to you about what works (and what doesn\u2019t) when it comes to catching tuna, he\u2019s not reeling off a memorized sales spiel from a glossy flyer.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s been there and caught his share of fish.<\/p>\n
Some of them single-handedly.<\/p>\n
And he\u2019s still doing it (while running Tightlines Tackle Co. in Walpole, ME with his wife Margaret), with his 74th birthday on the horizon at the end of this year.<\/p>\n
The thing is, Dave Mason didn\u2019t receive his saltwater baptism until the early 1980s, when he bought a boat and went fishing for the first time \u2026 at the age of 40.<\/p>\n
Why does a 40-year-old man move from central Maine down to the coast and buy a 37\u2019 REPCO?<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know \u2026 seemed like a good idea at the time,\u201d says Dave Mason with a pretty darn straight face.<\/p>\n
Dave made a deal with…<\/p>\n
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