I hold a commercial bluefin tuna permit, and fish off a boat very similar to the f/v Tuna.com, however, my boat is a lobster boat, that we will occasionally take tuna fishing. To say that Nmfs knows the actual Tuna stock in the sea is like saying Obama feels the pinch at the pump. I am 100% for conservation 100% of the time. How can you take and place a Marine biologists opinion on current tuna stocks, based on landings that they see at the dock? When all they do is climb back into their fed or state car, drive back to their desk, and come to a conclusion based on shaky information from the same 6 fisherman from the same 6 docks year after year? I will say this, a very high percentage of fisherman do not give accurate information when asked by a biologist to spill their guts on the end of the dock about where they caught, how many fish were seen, what method was used to fish, water temp and lure preference. Would you give out GPS coordinates to your favorite buck stand, you know, for conservations sake...? So how can the information received then be processed into legitimate findings? Beats me! To get back to your question, I will enjoy the show I hope, if the fisherman are respectful stewards of the sea. I think that we don't need to back down from what we air on TV based on the fear that a bunch of activists may cut copy edit and paste video of tuna fisherman in an attempt to rally up more support against outdoorsman and outdoor sports. How many battles are won with the victors tail between their legs? So no, I hope we don't hide our commercial fishing heritage in America, or any other country that is attempting to follow strict fishing guidelines. Rather, I would love to see the huge Bluefin boats that are seining and penning up tuna overseas shutdown. That's not a fishing method that anyone in the world should promote. (sorry if I've opened up a can of worms, I am only sharing my first hand experiences, not in an attempt to protect poor fishing methods, but rather to let it be known that there needs to be a change in the department of marine resources and NMFS techniques before they get our industry, passion, and livelyhood shut down based on off information.

The strict regulations that are places on the commercial fishing industry in all reality is not the real problem. The real problem lies in the enforcement of the regulations. I used to be in the Coast Guard and now I am a commercial crabber in Washington and dable in other available fisheries. Now from my Coast Guard background I know that the majority of the Pacific countries have a treaty stating the guidelines required for long-liners seiners and the sort however the majority of the countries do not have the resources to patrol and enforce these regulations so the US Coast Guard is heavily relied on for the enforcement but the Coast Guard fleet on the West Coast doesn't have the man power or the resources to do it all. The finger shouldn't be pointed at the TV shows they are all dealing with the same issues that we are here day in day out, low numbers cut quotas and the list goes on. The finger should be pointed right to the Indo-China area who are going about clear cutting the Oceans in the worst kind of way with the High Seas Drift Nets and there extremely long long-lines in South Pacific Exclusive Economic Zones