A Tuna's Worth

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/a-tunas-worth/

by dadt • 6 years ago

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jgwil2• 6 years ago

Such beautiful animals. It's a shame we haven't found a way to fish them responsibly.

ebg13• 6 years ago

I wonder. Have humans managed as a collective to do anything responsibly in their entire history?

wombatmobile6• 6 years ago

Australian aborigines managed a whole continent the size of the USA sustainably for 60,000 years.

http://www.workingwithindigenousaustralians.info/content/His...

RobLach• 6 years ago

Lumber is currently close and I bet could potentially totally be if you reverted to wood burning energy sources. That said, I’m unsure if having more trees is actually responsible given the fire risk.

nix232• 6 years ago

Developing vaccines and the declaration of human rights (after 2 World-wars)...but yeah there is really not much more.

quiescant_dodo• 6 years ago

Apparently not beautiful enough to avoid being killed at all, though. It's a shame we haven't stopped eating animals.

nightski2• 6 years ago

Ah yes, pesky humans. If only nature didn't have those killer humans it would be all peace and harmony.

slothtrop2• 6 years ago

It's an issue because our collective footprints grow, and we all have an environmental footprint regardless of what we consume. You could extend this to: it's a shame we haven't stopped decimating forests, it's a shame we will continue to encroach on land so long as our population grows, it's a shame that as a result of this growth more animals will die through conventional agriculture i.e. plants, etc.

jboggan• 6 years ago

One day I hope to spear one myself. I have a few friends that have been hard working and lucky enough to spear one and the food that they share from that is incredible. Sushi for days. Then again, these are the smaller bluefin about the size of a man, no one is spearing the giants.

steve_adams_86• 6 years ago

You would need some serious clips and line... and maybe a boat as your float.

Even other species of tuna that get relatively large look like an absolute life event to spear. There are albacore in the blue waters where I live, and some day I’d absolutely love to drop on a school of those. They get over four feet long!

supernova87a• 6 years ago

Hmm, the article was somewhat interesting, but after spending 15 minutes with it, I felt it just ended up rambling without a clear point.

Not that that's a bad thing -- there's something to be said for long narrative. Or reading something for atmosphere.

But especially for a coastal eco-website/magazine, I would think the writer would try to emphasize more of a focused point or question / issue for the reader to ponder. Like the need for fisheries management, or the cost of shipping fish around the globe, or the struggle of a quota'd fishing boat, or something like that.

This one wandered among several different topics, touching each one briefly but never really sticking to a theme and driving the point home. Even the last paragraph, which usually ends up with a question or big point, read just like any other paragraph or sentence. Ah well.

A Tuna's Worth

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