Photo in todays Christchurch Press. Still a few charter boats down at the wharf. Watched them unload two bluefin of one. Big buggars arent they.Then two guys filleted them out. They sure were huge fillets.
Asking around they are getting them about 50 miles offshore from Karamea, right in behind the Big Hoki Trawlers. Saw this on one of the fish shows on TV recently. Apparently the Carters Gone Fishing guys were down here last week on one of the charter boats.
The local taxi driver said he picked up a group of guys from the airport who were heading out to spear fish for them. Man that would be risky methinks. Its a long way to the bottom of the ocean out there.