Tuna Fishing and Marine Wildlife 7/31/22
This past weekend a friend invited me to join him on his boat for a tuna fishing trip. I didn’t hesitate to take his offer. The trip offered me two of my favorite activities - fishing and wildlife viewing. Luckily, the weather, the tuna and the marine life all cooperated for me. We caught yellowfin tuna and saw plenty of dolphins, whales and a few pelagic birds. We left my friend’s dock at around 1 a.m. aboard his 36-foot fishing boat. The boat, all decked out with offshore fishing gear, headed out of Barnegat Inlet on a course about 90 miles to the northeast. We arrived at the fishing grounds around 5:30 a.m. I can’t identify the exact location because my friend, like any other dedicated fishing captain, doesn’t give out his secret GPS coordinates. But eBird decided to place my checklist in New York waters. Left, Wilson's storm-petrel. Right, Cory's shearwater. © S. Weiss Left, great shearwater. Right, grea...