Life On The Line - The amazing true story of the Southern Bluefin Tuna

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

Absolutely stunning documentary, glad I found this!

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate appreciate it

[@dominicsignorile9511]

Thanks! I saw how the Bluefin were in danger of being extinct in Naples, Italy on TV years ago. Maybe I can help there when I retire however, you’re doing a great job in Australia! 😎🇺🇸

[@drew8703]

This isn't actually a documentary -- its just made to look like one. I'm not sure farming these fish is without new problems. Lets take a fish that has one of the largest migration patterns in the world and limit its existence to a tiny pen -- who would think anything could go wrong with that? Also, have there ever been any studies on the effect of catching a fish and then letting it go? I think a fish would be scared to eat after that.

[@jamesohyoung9805]

@@almcglashan Ohio

[@esirawaqalevu7365]

@@dominicsignorile9511 J j

[@thehistoryofsportfishing]

Perfect title for an outstanding documentary. Hat's off to Al, his team, and everyone involved for saving the SBT!

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate

[@fishingwithtreako]

The amount of time and effort that went into making this documentary is just incredible! I had goosebumps watching this ❤

[@almcglashan]

thanks heaps it sure was a passion project!!

[@shanegrayling6728]

Much respect from someone who has enjoyed the SBT recreational fishery in NZ that we opened our eyes to in the last decade

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate appreciate it

[@zenpro8164]

absolutely the best ever documentary Ive come across...great job and stellar production!

[@almcglashan]

Cheers mate appreciate it

[@waynemarr7569]

Such an important story to share. Well told Al. Beautifully filmed and a bit of good news that the world really needs to hear. There are valuable lessons to be learnt here if the fragile balance is to be maintained.

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate

[@johnh1353]

amazing animal ... probably hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it the powerhouse of all fish

[@hudzaifahalhafidh3309]

Thank you for making this documentary about SBT, it really helped me understand better on how these fish live and how they're regulated before getting into the kitchen.

[@rogerramjet7246]

As a young lad from Port Lincoln going to sea with my father tuna fishing in the 70s and 80s then finally being allowed to get in the racks with the men poling to the introduction of Quota systems and per seine vessels to eventually watching it evolve into the tuna farming methods we see today .......... wow what a journey . I loved every moment of it except when the farming started and the buzz of chasing the catch ended as we knew it. Ultimate respect for this dynamic amazing fish . It’s great to see the numbers increasing again .

[@davidprocter3578]

As much as I applaud the efforts taken to preserve the BFT , I worry that the o0verfishing of pilchards to feed the ranched fish is unsustainable and will lead to the collapse of both the pilchards stocks and tuna ranching. I have seen over fishing for fertilizer leading to the collapse of fish stocks and it's knock on consequences for the local community.

[@geoffreytudor5674]

Quite a well-put-together effort. Two questions arise, though: how do you cope with the pirate fishermen, those who sail with impoverished or even enslaved crews and recognize neither laws nor borders? And secondly, what IS the spawning life cycle of the SBT? I would really have liked to see what research was being done, and to get at least an overview of the chain in Indonesian waters.

[@almcglashan]

G'day Geoffrey I love to have added more about the life cycle but we just physically couldn’t fit it in. As for slave crews and pirates that’s all high seas stuff and we had no budget for this as this doco was largely self funded.

[@adambrown2626]

Cracking doco Al, thanks to all the passionate participants to correct what we have nearly destroyed.

[@almcglashan]

Yeah I just hope we can do the same for other species

[@GinClearMedia]

Al this is superb, well done to all involved. We've just had the best start to an SBT season anyone can remember off Fiordland in NZ. Fish in numbers not seen since the 70's

[@almcglashan]

Thanks guys yeah I have been watching all the action and now things have just really kicked off down south here too!!!

[@sarahlatimer8625]

Grateful for an updated tale of the SBT fishery! Thanks for the informative documentary!

[@almcglashan]

Thanks

[@roberthandlon1877]

Awesome job in building an infrastructure that sustains the fishery, more of this needs to be done around the world. Really great video, should be a must see for everyone. Thanks.

[@almcglashan]

Thank you very much!

[@freechagosislandjohnpilger]

great docu, Al is a speaker from the heart, Greed and disrespect, I can tell you as a european aussie, this was the case , just ask/listen to the indigenous mob. take just a few, and biggest isnt always best, Aussies have turned 360 nowdays, the respect i see is truly heartening

[@deanohit]

What a cracking good doco, so glad I found this and your channel. Keep up the great work mate, I'm surprised this doesn't have way more views 👍

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate

[@bennyrobles9194]

You guys are the right example for the whole world.!! Hard work,motivation, and now you see the results. It is possible.!!!! Greetings from the Dutch Caribbean.!

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate hopefully we can highlight a heap more species that are improving in the future!

[@kater192]

I so enjoyed this documentary! I'm currently writing a paper on the bluefin crisis and RFMO response, and this really helped clarify the issue in regards to the Southern bluefin as well as give some perspective past RFMO documents. Thank you for sharing this!

[@almcglashan]

pleasure Kate it was certainly an eyeopener producing it

[@jillian8485]

just phenomenal documentary, thank you for shedding the light on one of the most heroic creatures of the sea, you did amazing work learned so much thank you for that!

[@almcglashan]

thanks for the kind commets!!

[@abasyempre7760]

Great documnetary.. hard work paid off..

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate there was definitely lots of hard work!

[@alistairmills7608]

I fuckin' love this documentary Al', bloody big thanks mateI know the science, I know the fishery, I know the places and I know the truth of the story the way you represented it. I know the Merimbula and Batman's Bay Offshore Pelagic Fishing Clubs and rarely in articles in fishing magazines over the past 50 years. You have congruence in every memory I have, recreational fishoes, changed their target species and I remember them disappearing and the confusion, mates sold their boats. That was 30 years ago. 9 years ago I watched the boys down at Port Fairy build a Specialist Recreational Southern Bluefin Tuna Commercial fishing Experiencial Adventure Tourist Fishing boat to take a dozen tourists out at once and for everyone to catch a Southern Bluefin Tuna on a Seven Day at sea experiencial adventure. Cool hay! Most excellent doco Bro'.🙏💪🙌🐟🐟🐟🙌💪🙏

[@74_emu93]

This is so underrated. Videos like this should be shown to the world so they can see the dangers we put in to our world that Mother Nature shares with us. There must be a change so we can save our world

[@almcglashan]

I wish sad they only promote the doom and gloom vids instead of what we are doing right!

[@unaffiliatedwealth1798]

I must give the Aussies a hand. Very interesting documentary. 👏🏾

[@gregbowen617]

Absolutely loved this-a great example of all parties working together for the common good. Well done…!

[@almcglashan]

Thanks Greg

[@raven_sentinel_]

Thanks for conserving the blue fin tuna, now i had seen big tuna in our port here in Infanta, Philippines ❤

[@Reciprocity_Soils]

Marvelous work on the footage and reporting. All people who eat SBT (or anything at all for that matter) must share the responsibility of managing our wonderfully amazing world of resources. Long live the Southern Bluefin Tuna!

[@almcglashan]

100%👍

[@simdogg8412]

Massive respect to your hard work and dedication al

[@almcglashan]

Just passionate and keen to make it better for fish and fishermen

[@kellengalban1467]

Awesome true story documentary, some well needed good news

[@almcglashan]

yeah we certainly need some good news in the ocean

[@longwhitemane]

It's so easy to be negative about So. Bluefin, but you've put together a great doc that shows how well we as nations can really do great things if we really work together. A pleasure to watch, and I hope that US will adapt & use the Australian solutions to our own troubled fisheries. Cheers!

[@almcglashan]

Thanks lets hope its sets the example for more bluefin!

[@GloryDaze73]

Those bluefins are exactly aware of what's happening...the look in their eyes when they get caught and hooked...😢

[@Gee-Wizz]

i know this is a old vid now but, HO-Lee what great presentation. Al Mcglashan is a master story teller..

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate

[@OBCBTTB]

I live in Cape Town, South Africa. Post WWII and up to the 1970s we had a pod of huge Bluefins coming into False Bay inside Cape Point. There are photographic records of these specimens. The anglers of yesteryear also spoke of catching young Bluefins from the ledges of Rooikranz during the 70s, possibly earlier. I must reread the books written by Charles Horn to put dates etc. The inside of Cape Point and towards Smitswinkle Bay inside False Bay looks a bit like Hobart, Tasmania in your video. I'm hoping that we will get shoals of Bluefin coming back to False Bay during my lifetime. The big skiboats catch a few Southern Bluefin each year in the deep off Cape Point which they call Big Eye Tunas, I believe its the same species? Our catches here off Cape Point is predominantly Yellowfin and Longfin Tuna. Hoping that those Bluefins might resume their migrational path they had before the overfishing took place. Thank you for your inspirational and well documented video, gives me hope for the future. South African authorities need to come take a few pages out of your guys books, our resources are being plundered and Government seems oblivious to it all.

[@almcglashan]

Hopefully the numbers continue to improve but they still need to get across the Indian Ocean which is still bait lawless!

[@chriscorrigan4428]

What a wake up. From greed to succeed. Everyone involved need a medal to take the plunge and turn a disaster around. I'm a fisherman and have been for quite a number of years but was never aware of the possible extinction of one of our stunning creatures. Top show Al.

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate I just thought it was time we showed something positive for our oceans

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

Way to go Guys awesome job keep up the great work,each year there coming back 👍👍👍👍 Iam a commercial giant Atlantic blue fin tuna fisherman,we have strict quota 1 fish per boat a day ,works great

[@almcglashan]

Id love to come over and film the giants over there such amazing fish!

[@jonboyle326]

thanks for the complete story and its players i hope everyone is a winner i was trying to imagine a fully recovered fishery

[@almcglashan]

Its a good example of everyone working together so lets hope it catches on!

[@stinginglizard6323]

Excellent documentary. Very informative and unbiased (as far as I can tell). The videography and scenery was top-notch and the overall production value was very high. Great job and thank you for all the hard work.

[@almcglashan]

Thanks very much I just hope it helps to get everyone together for the tunas sake!!

[@dr.pramodkumar4974]

Beautiful documentary,no words.

[@almcglashan]

Thank you

[@OutdoorChefLife]

That was great. Thanks for the documentary!

[@almcglashan]

absolute pleasure

[@pain-gb4uf]

hi taku

[@MTSportfishing]

i'm in southern California, USA and the work that australia and new zealand has done and the pressure they have put on japan has caused a major impact on our fishery over here. We are having some of the best fishing ever here. I love these fish and am so grateful for the international efforts to save these fish. in the US we have not seen bluefin populations at this level in at least 100 years and what is really exciting for me is this year we got the full gamut of bluefin here from 20-400 lbs which to me means we are doing something right as we are getting more and more bluefin here. the only problem is i had to get all new gear the last 5 years as we used to be a 20-40 lbs fish fishery. but i have gotten to get multiple fish of a lifetime and memories with my favorite crews and make a few friends along the way

[@almcglashan]

Its awesome what we can achieve when the country’s come together I reckon to make fishing better!

[@articlered2334]

Wait till the Chinese and Indians get into the mix………

[@GettingSchwiftyy]

​@@articlered2334Chinese pirate fishing is a massive problem already

[@robertsuch3614]

Best documentary I’ve ever watched on youtube, just awesome Al 👌🏼😎 Deepest respect and gratitude from the UK 🇬🇧👍🏼😉🐟

[@almcglashan]

Thanks heaps appreciate it!

[@peterclark7879]

Great Video great to see everybody wants to see such a beautiful fish prosper

[@almcglashan]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@xaviersales92]

This is such a great documentary, thank you Al. I’d love to watch a kingfish documentary next, how commercial fishing decimated them and are now starting to recover. We are tagging 1m kings at the harbour this season consistently, I’ve never seen them this healthy in my 5 years of fishing the harbour

[@almcglashan]

Id love to but theyre are so controversial with anglers fighting each other and government depts pretending nothing is wrong!!

[@xaviersales92]

@@unstoppablezone4980 cool story bro

[@xaviersales92]

@@almcglashan the charter boys wouldn’t like a doco on the kings around the harbour 😅. It’s probably for the best for everyone to not film a doco on kings while they’re still recovering anyway. Would love to fish with you one day mate, you inspire lots of us fishos!

[@almcglashan]

@@xaviersales92 hopefully they do recover but not with the pressure on kingfish stocks these days

[@xaviersales92]

@@almcglashan agreed mate. They get pillaged along our coasts. I think people forget that we share the same kingfish stocks with other states yet rules are different down south and north. I wonder if there’s a way we can make it all regulated as one

[@DrHook-hg6wq]

Great Film. Great photography. Very informative. Keep up the good work.

[@almcglashan]

Thanks mate

[@aftizzy]

Fantastic work Al, this was a brilliant watch ❤️=🐟

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate

[@thegreenguy7268]

They catch Southern Blue Fin off the West coast of New Zealand's South Island... and they are monsters..

[@wheresjordy347]

Always going above and beyond for all the content you put out 👍👍 Thanks again Al

[@almcglashan]

Thanks heaps buddy. I love filming it more than catch hing them these days!

[@bobbyrain8453]

Very Beautiful video documentary. Loved the musics too. Would like to know the musics used in this documentary. Thanks.

[@stephenparsons3719]

Loved it when I was a kid I had the pleasure to go rock hopping with Alen Perry Jon shouthorn and a bunch of legions that keeper the south coast of Australia on the map loved every min of this show 10/10 CAR FISHING IS THE WAY TO GO FOR THE NEXT GENERATION TO EXPERIENCE WAT ITS ALL ABOUT

[@scotttuason5504]

Very well done docu !

[@-unactive-7240]

Mate Awesome documentary!!! Great! I love your fishing books too mate! I ave a heap of them! You rock🤙👍🤙👍

[@almcglashan]

Thanks 👍

[@marlin123ish]

good job on the doco mate. I still remember holding up the fillet you were cutting in eagle hawk. that first barrel when Mat Boulton was with Richard and me (bandit) on pure gold. Trevor Hogan was on your 600r and someone ran over the first fish. haha good old times. I still have that photo of the fillet somewhere.

[@almcglashan]

back when it all started so awesome

[@marlin123ish]

@@almcglashan yep was pretty good. would love to have a fish with you one day. just putt a haines cc together just a little 445 but it's been off the shelf. nothing like your new rig though. anyway keep doing what you're doing it's very entertaining especially in lockdowns when we cant get out. cheers

[@timhalley6987]

Outstanding documentary. I've chased bluefin in the Pacific near Southern California and Mexico. The Mexican pens were an affront until we were educated to the purpose and process of your great research and management. Hats off to you.

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate appreciate it

[@hooked_on_adventure]

Great doco Al! I’m impressed that you didn’t mention the “bloody greenies” even once! Good to see Coops making a cameo appearance at the end! Keep up the good work mate

[@almcglashan]

I struggled I tell you 😁

[@Rakscha-Sun]

When I was a child I was so that sad that everything truly important and exiting to discover had already been discovered. How wrong I was :)

[@shojicastillo9711]

I love this documentary. I also studied at University of Wollongong and walked to that lighthouse countless times to fish there

[@almcglashan]

pretty spot that’s for sure

[@pthom1508]

Great documentary. It would be great if people ate less bluefin and ate more of the fish we feed to the bluefin.

[@southernwarrior9302]

There plenty of other fish to eat in the sea

Ok....you do that

[@pthom1508]

@ I do. I have a pantry full of sardines and herring. They're delicious and much better for the ecosystem than either wild caught or farm raised bluefin.

[@creativeidiotgf3024]

Ehhhh I like my sushi

[@bigjohnny9759]

Mahi mahi is a great tropical fish to eat and they breed incredibly fast.

[@lucyloose2841]

great little doco...love to see a follow up now to see if those numbers are still growing

[@almcglashan]

They are still going up so far!

[@TheChewbee]

Beautiful thank you !!!

[@mattbass_strait6030]

Well done on the doco. Good news for the sbt fishery. But what about the yellowfin tuna in NSW the golden days of the 80s big tuna off eden and bermagui. Is there any hope they will rebound

[@almcglashan]

Keen as just need someone to fund it which is tough!

[@dushyantathapa2833]

Al McGlashan Lot's of love from Darjeeling, India.,.very informative reel.....more expected....mate..,

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Great video, and man is getting smarter. Hats off to the Aussies

[@almcglashan]

Thanks 👍

[@micknoname6466]

What a fantastic story 👍 And told so beautifully, Al 👍👍 Having caught (and released) my first ever SBT just last week, I’m absolutely stoked to have the opportunity to go out and enjoy these rockets of the ocean 😁. And my god 😳 How stunning was that spot you fished in Tassie? 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@almcglashan]

Yeah tassie is amazing

[@reefy2135]

Great Doco, very interesting watch👍 any insight on the recent run of sbt offshore of port phillip bay? Do you believe this could be a consistent annual run?

[@almcglashan]

I am hoping it is thats for sure

[@dillberry99]

Please do one on the kingfish traps and the YFT off the peak, would love to know more about if we can bring it back to what it once was.

[@almcglashan]

Keen as if we can get someone to fund it!

[@gerryricker7812]

I truly love what you are doing I think this is the best thing that anybody could ever do it should not be just done with one specie of fish I should be done with all even whales to grow baby whales at least whatever population is still around enjoy your program when I was younger I wanted to do this with perch and pickerel oh because I could not read that well I couldn't find out much about it I'm pretty much stuck with all my life until I turned 50 years old of age I decided to go back to school to learn and I've come a long ways in 10 years I just want to say thank you and God bless you all

[@almcglashan]

Thanks jerry yes we should be doing lots more but we need to secure funding first unfortunately

[@kimboss4190]

@@almcglashan Governments should fund this!

[@joeblack4436]

I worked a bit on the data side of fisheries 20 years ago, and the rhetoric from both harvesters and consumers was unreal. Sky high determined demand coupled with dogged determination to cash in on the harvest side. Resistance to monitoring was still widespread. It was no wonder things were looking bad. I was convinced such species were on the way out. Had nothing changed it would have been a sure thing. I shudder to think what it must have been like 40 years ago. I mean even a potato farmer will keep some spuds for next year's harvest. The whole thing affected me negatively and to this day I content myself with a few fishfingers a month and cut myself off from news about the matter. And I'm not extreme. I want to eat fish. It was just that bad and I wanted to salvage what dignity I could. I was in that business, because I knew it could work for everybody willing to work together, and I cared about that. I'm honestly happy to hear there's been buy in by stakeholders and improvement in at least that fishery since. If they hadn't nobody would have anything by this time.

[@seashurjewelry]

awesome! Im coming out with a bluefin tuna pendant soon!

[@2PistonRolling]

Eye opening information. Are there any ways to help our Ocean flurish again leave them untouch for sometime.

[@almcglashan]

yeah its not all doom and gloom

[@oliverwalker2674]

Really good documentary, those stats are tragic, are we learning? Not sure, the fish farms are a really good idea, very impressive solution, their are huge illegal fishing fleets 100s strong out there, the fish don't stand a chance. Really informative, great work, thank you.

[@almcglashan]

You are certainly right about the illegal fishing fleets except there are 100s there are 1000s on the high seas sadly

[@kimboss4190]

@@almcglashan I think the Commission for the Conservation of SBT should be given authority to enforce protection of their fishing policies.Meaning, in open waters where any boat is illegally fishing, they should be able to arrest, confiscate the boat, enforce punishment. Whatever it takes by whatever means necessary. Kind of like a NATO for the oceans. Wishful thinking, I know. From Phoenix, AZ USA

[@almcglashan]

@@kimboss4190 I reckon its a great in theory but on the high seas anything roles and some countries just don’t give a damn

[@kimboss4190]

@@almcglashan I think the animals of our world ( on land / in water) are here for all of us to appreciate. If their location puts them in harm's way then the people of that locale should be tasked with protecting them but if they are unable to do this then it should become everyone's problem so that a solution is found that works. For instance, the rhino's in Africa. If the people protecting them can't keep the poachers from killing them then the job of protecting them should be open to anyone ( from any country) that has the ability to get the job done. Don't let any species become critically endangered or extinct because the country where they live was inadequate in protecting them. I'm sure if a request for a solution was put out there on the internet there would be interested parties with enough money to come up with a solution. I was on a govt website for South Africa and they give a monthly report of how many rhinos were lost to poaching. Like it's something they just accept and move on. The site listed the top 10 goals for the year and it was all about growing economically. No mention of doing anything different about the rhino situation. I get it. They are trying to grow to provide a better life for the citizens but if that's the case then hand over the welfare of the rhinos and any other animals they can't be bothered with while they are becoming more economically sound.

[@craiglapham9883]

Thanks Al 👍🐨🇦🇺

[@shouldbefishin8528]

Great work Al, bloody lot of time and money to that all together.

[@almcglashan]

Thanks heaps👍

[@davidhall1779]

Fantastic documentary.

[@almcglashan]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michaelkleist9482]

Awesome step in the right direction 👍👍👍

[@almcglashan]

I just wished we could do more docs on more species to highlight the good news

[@Tuidkskiwjdhdbd]

Great great film i love fish more than people lol

[@arabarran]

Amazing story! Greetings from Croatia! :)

[@almcglashan]

thanks buddy

[@theovanstaden5766]

Amazing video Al McGlashan! Hi from the east coast of south africa!

[@almcglashan]

Cheers hopefully you see them appearing over there in ever increasing numbers!

[@joeyzagari4155]

Are you able to produce a follow up video to cover the last 5 minutes of this video in terms of the performance of the industry management and evidence based quota and what the recovery looks like now and what it could look like in future projections, and if all the pieces of the puzzle are still in place and hasn’t slipped backwards? I’m also interested in landbased game and it’s been over a decade, more like 2 decades that historical yellowfin have vanished from NSW and are just not returning but I’m interested in seeing landbased SBT returning rather than just boat reports. I feel the program is inadequate until we see these fish produce more in shore landbased.

[@almcglashan]

Asked to do but cant get the gov keen for a follow up so far. Yellowfin are larger overfished world-wide so its unlikely they will ever come back in close. As for blues I have never heard of them being inshore in NSW much better option in Tassi

[@joeyzagari4155]

@@almcglashan it’s a beautiful film you’ve created, your closing statements ‘the story of the bluefin tuna is setting precedent in how we manage global fisheries’. Trying to be careful with what I say. Hope things change for a follow up film to this one. Hard to believe that improved outcomes for SBT isn’t rapidly embraced for other tuna species, seems to go without saying. We don’t eat whale and sharkfin but we know that fishery continues. The Japanese sushi fad from the 80’s has literally depleted global tuna in as little as a decade, that’s really when landbased yellowfin ended. Sashimi is not a local village economic dependence and can be curtailed. There are several landbased SBT places around, a bit more stock recovery will see them in close. Hopefully the landbased fisherman can be viewed as stakeholder. It would be nice to understand the yellowfin fishery a little better, and like forestry and mining rehabilitation is part of those industries, so too sashimi market owes responsibility for yellowfin rehabilitation. Through politics we added farmer relief to our milk, however dwindling outcomes isn’t in anyone’s interests.

[@almcglashan]

@@joeyzagari4155 The biggest impact on yellowfin isnt really longlining its the canned tuna fisheries which is flogging them on a global scale sadly

[@supernachomachoman4031]

Excellent documentary, loved it!!

[@mikaelesmith475]

Great documentary! Thankyou so much.

[@almcglashan]

thanks heaps

[@CesarHernandez-ht5ex]

Thanks to all that save the tuna, for the world, china has to du it’s part and not over fish.

[@BaitBallin]

Getting excited for the SBT run, so watching this again!

[@almcglashan]

me too hanging to see them arrive!

[@naimvideo99]

Great. Good luck always brother

[@manininikolas9310]

Bravo excellent video complete I use to be captain of long liner in tahiti

[@almcglashan]

thanks mate👍

[@70stunes71]

Excellent 👍👌✨️

[@darrensice1550]

I worked on a long line tuna boat when I lived at Ulladulla in the boat QUESTION and the skipper was friend of my parents. We would go down to burmagui and fish from there for about a month to get some money to buy things we needed while out at sea. Then we would travel down to Eden and this is where we would go from catching 30-40-50kg yellow fin to either big eye tuna and blue fin tuna. Back then it was 1988-89 that I was doing this and the biggest fish we caught would weigh between 90-130kg was our biggest and that was blue fin and big eye biggest was 120kg and for the 2 months fishing out of eden being the deck boss I was on 16% and the green horns 8 while I was on the boat were on 12-15% depending if they had a go and worked. For the 2 months off eden first month I earned $6,500 and the second I earned $9,000 and for a teenager of 15 the first year earned roughly the same but less than the 2 year and a teenager 16 and 25,000 in the bank none of the other teens that lived there never had money to do what they wanted. In the off season I ended up working with my older brother’s boss gyprocking and I have been plastering since I was 16,5 years old and I’m 49. The thing that got me wanting to get on a boat was my best friend he would fish with his dad and once on the boat and the skipper would say he couldn’t believe that he was lucky enough to get me as a deckhand because I would always ask questions about why he would say do it this way and helping keep the boat maintained and clean inside and out. That’s when you would get asked to go sit with the skipper’s and listen firstly to the stories of the massive fish they had seen but the different things they would notice about their boats and different things they had found easier that they would get so annoyed with their deckies not remembering and one day I said the best line they had heard. I said it would piss me off because every day I would have to train the other deckhand again and I would say can you remember one thing I tell you so the boat operates smoothly and they all started using that line. When I went back to Ulladulla and walked down the warf the other deckhands back then were now skippers and I left there 6,3 tall and 65-70 kg and I was 104kg when I went back and everyone couldn’t believe how much I had changed and I said all I have been doing is plastering and then 10km jog after work and eat dinner and go to boxing gym until 10pm 5 days a week and then either go water skiing all weekend or clubbing Saturday nights. Ulladulla was the best place to grow up and the beaches were awesome.

[@deemariedubois4916]

I wish a world wide effort like this would be done for the sharks species who are endangered.

[@Swandivein]

id love to go for a dive with these guys!!!

[@robbiebobbie9508]

Awesome doco. One question though... Who is managing the bait fish fishery that were being feed to the farmed tuna???

[@almcglashan]

Its a mix of state and federal rules although I am concerned about advancements in technology

[@tonyhollidge8213]

glosed over the by catch with the long liners how independant is this doc?

[@almcglashan]

We filmed with the longliners for several days covering everything. Everything they catch is recorded on the cameras they cant hide anything.

[@amigaone777]

I thought this was going to be a documentary about the fishing capital of Australia.

[@wildfish4ever]

Awesome, Just make sure Stewwy is in the next one!

[@Tuidkskiwjdhdbd]

Man the tagged fish from satalights is amazing

[@athulev241]

Excellent work... ❤❤

[@almcglashan]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ARYEFRACHMAD]

Ikan paling enak gurih dan banyak disukai

[@Johnyesudasan-t2]

*Amazing Story 👍*

[@almcglashan]

certainly is!

[@garyteeley8351]

Nice watch and humble men. Not sure about the comment that the fish would thank the professors more, they would say stop killing us....lol

[@dalsomteam5238]

Great video, quick question: why u r not removing stomach and bladder of tuna fish before storing in RSW fish hold? That would reduce the amount of bacteria that spreads into the whole fish.

[@almcglashan]

The commercial fisher do remove the guts and gills and we have started doing it too

[@drewjohn6847]

Nice video mate..How cool is it going to be when those gps data tags get cheap and you can tag and watch your fish on the net in real time for yrs to come, now, that would increase catch and release to the point where any fish you catch will be tagged already...lol..

[@almcglashan]

I am hanging for technology to catch up!

[@chriskalsbeek2252]

How many kilos of pilchards is needed for to get a kilo of farmed tuna and whats the impcked on pilcard stocks? and BTW great doco.

[@almcglashan]

good question they certainly eat a bit!

[@davidblacker6737]

@@almcglashan 10kg of pilchards per kg of growth. (FCR - feed conversion ratio) The Pilchard Fishery is one of the most conservative quota-ed fisheries in the world, with only a tiny percentage (

[@davidblacker6737]

P.S. that FCR is 'wet' feed weight - Other fish farms use dried pellet, mainly fish meal - so their ratios are quite different

[@joedansereau381]

very very informative thank you

[@almcglashan]

Glad it was helpful!