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Originally Posted by dakota560
Congratulations to you guys for a trip of a lifetime. Would like to ask a question and don't mean to stir the pot so please don't take it that way. What are the rules in PEI regarding keeping bluefins and if you can't sell a fish like that what do you do with all that meat? I would also think after an hour long battle the meat would be effected but I guess not if they sell them after the same battle on Wicked Tuna for big dollars.
If you can't sell the fish though what do you do with all that meat? Curious more than anything else. I know there was a nine and change caught last year in the Mud Hole by a guy out of Staten Island I believe and I was thinking the same thing. Everyone is entitled to harvest the seas bounty so I'm not questioning keeping what's allowed but if you can't take it to market I guess my question would be is it really worth killing something that magnificant for the grill. Don't think you could eat that much tuna in five years if you tried!
Either way great catch!
Dakota
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The rules in PEI are each license gets one kill tag for the season which ends at the end of this month then all the captains get thrown into a hat to be drawn for another tag if the quota is not met. I believe there are about 400 licenses on PEI and for the Oct draw only the first 60 are going to get a tag.
The captains I fish with have become close friends and have allowed us to catch their kill fish. The fish is theirs not ours we just get the privalege of standing next to one of these great creatures for a picture. Both fish you saw hanging were on a plane to Japan within 5 hours. As far as the prices on wicked tuna go it seems they are a little skewed as the highest price I heard was $10 per lb with ours getting $4.50 and $7 respectively.
