LOTS OF TUNA THIS YEAR

September 16,2008

Got up late this morning and decided to try our luck crabbing on the docks. Was not ready for the boat as of yet. Still had to do some more maintenance on it like install the depth finders. We crabbed for about 3 hours with very little luck. Caught several small Dungeness crabs and some small rock crabs. Decided to call it quits for the day around 4:30 or so. On the way back we noticed a fisherman at one of the cleaning stations on the dock cleaning Albacore Tuna. Naturally I had to stop and watch the man cut up the tuna. Most of the tuna he was cleaning were around 25 to 30 lbs each. He would fillet them and cut them into large boneless steaks. I guess the man comes down to the dock every evening to clean other fisherman’s tuna. They’re catching the Albacore about 30 to 40 miles off shore, which is pretty close. They are predicting a large harvest of tuna this year in Oregon.

I talked to one of the fisherman and asked how much they were charging for their tuna this year and he told me $2.50 a lb. Now figuring you have a 20 lb fish and you pay $2.50 per lb, that’s about $50.00 per fish. Of course you have to figure in for waste such as the head, entrails etc and that makes up about ½ the weight, so in realty you’re paying around $5.00 per lb and getting about 10 lbs of fish.