Tuna Wranglers

www.demanddvd.co.uk *ORDER NOW ON DVD* Tuna Wranglers profiles the lives of fisherman who work in one of the most remote and dangerous places on Earth - Australia's Southern Ocean. Notoriously unpredictible and with towering waves a constent threat, it can be a graveyard for shipping. Each year, these fisherman take up the unique challenge of spending two months rounding up, and caging and dragging home millions of dollars' worth of live southern bluefin tuna, destined for fastidious Japanese diners. Only a certain calibre of person willingly jumps into a tuna pen 190km offshore and wrestles deadly sharks out with their bare hands. Yet, for South Australia's tuna fisherman, it's all in a day's work

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• Tuna
• Fishing
• Australia
• Ocean
• Fisherman
• Sharks
• Bluefin
• Shipping
• Seas
• DVD

[Trafa522]

@CondemnedPatriot

Just showing your complete ignorance there mate, like so many others. To set you straight dickhead, they are in Australian waters, fishing Southern Bluefin Tuna, they have strict quota controls and the fishery has been stable for nearly 15 years, stock indicators have been going from strength to strength since illegal fishing by the Japanese was exposed and stopped. I know this because Ive been on the fishing grounds each year for the past 25 years. You clueless wanker!!

[burnsdc]

@Trafa522 Since commercial fishing began in the 1940's, stocks have been reduced to 5%. Most of CSIRO's aerial surveillance records juveniles unable to breed for years. It is absurd that this practice continues, and lets hope that Sea Shepard rams as many pens as possible and sets this critically endangered species free. You clearly don't have any respect for the environment, only your bank balance. Your ignorance and that of others is fucking up our once rich and diverse ecosystem.

[ZombieRubs]

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,"

Here's my little nullidge: finite space = finite resources. Period.

I don't what you care what you do.

Fish away,

drill away,

drink away

pop away.

I hope I am there to say it.

I told you....

[Trafa522]

@burnsdc What you should understand is that despite what you think, noone wants to look after the stock more than those who's town's & children depend on it. I've seen too much go wrong in fisheries management in the past to be ignorant of the dangers, but I can tell you straight, the SBT fishery in SA is, and has been, healthy and improving season by season since the drastic quota cuts were brought in the mid 80's. All the science supports this, as do the recent quota increases.

[Trafa522]

@burnsdc As my Dad used to say, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and you sir, have "a little knowledge." Just to bring you up to speed, as I said previously, CSIRO and other stock indicators have continued to show continued strong stock growth with SBT. CSIRO arial surveys have been conclusively showing for many years that numbers of all size fish in the GAB has been increasing substantially. (Check your facts, CSIRO deliver their results directly to me, how about you?)

[hanepkaboy14]

STEHR GROUP BRO :)

[johndelaware]

Dude wrestled a shark. Fuck me!

[WorshipInTruth]

Why would it be a loss of tens of thousands of dollars if the shark eats a tuna or two?

[sdevault01]

This is the best way to manage and preserve the tuna population. After they transfer the tuna into holding containers, the tuna are fed to double or triple the size from when they were caught. Maybe all these bleeding heart liberal morons would prefer they go after the giant bluefins instead of the 40lb'rs. Come on, think!

[TheJDub1228]

I could respect the Aussies if they were to catch these fish the old fashion way but they need helicopters, radar, and many crew members, how pathetic are these filthy Aussie bastards. You and the Japanese whalers deserve only the worst. Hope some nuclear cotastrape happens in your country.

From the USA

[TheJDub1228]

I hate these Ausies, i hope of of those sharks kills one of them. These Aussies are just as bad as the Japanese whalers IMO.