UNBELIEVABLE Giant Bluefin TUNA chasing Garfish in South Devon! 

But you are not seeing what they catch below the surface. By the size of these tuna, they are not missing that many!

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Fair point...

id say even if they miss the fish is properly stunned then picked off

Me to i always say do you eat dolphins too

The overfishing of bluefin tuna was covered extensively but it's quite amazing to see how the recovery of the bluefin tuna gets almost no airtime! Their population has rebounded substantially in the last few years.

Yes it's delightful to see 😊 Too bad though that it's only eight, should be way more.

@@traciewalker8506 population hasn't been as high as it is now in almost 30 years.

@@deannelson9565 Thats nice, lets keep this going until there are 100x more. The work isnt done.

Nature at its best- a beautiful living “ art form “

right, they usually see it in a tin or sandwich infront of them.

Right. I mean, where's the label?

God aint gotxanything to do with it its there food returnig

they have come all the way to Denmark in the Baltic Sea in big numbers the last 7-8 years, they are hunting herring and mackerel

Where is South Devon? I google it and nothing on the sea came up

@@4wheelliving132Devon is West of Cornwall in the UK.

​@@donframeli9855if people were aware of Gods gifts, they wouldnt liquidate life for cash. Go against natural law, is to go against god. The only reason for food shortages is due to evil people, so yes. He has everything to do with the current mindset. Cheers

I think those tuna were barking up the wrong tree, there! :))

Ever catch and release a Garfish? I have, they’re very fragile. I believe the ones you saw stunned were actually dead and eaten later. So maybe the Bluefin’s hunting tactics are similar to the Orca’s where it’s a two part plan?

@@rjo8500 No, not much of a fisherman, and good point about the stunning, I know that an orca hit me hard enough, they could probably eat me before I was re-awake, not that they would need to stun us to eat us.

@@Hardrock1a Lol! True

@@rjo8500 From the video, you can see garfish at times make several leaps out of the water to avoid a persistent tuna. Re cetaceans, I know of dolphins swimming into shoals and giving the fish a good whack with their tail to stun them - before picking them off easily. Then, I've heard of orca headbutting great whites, flipping them over for tonic immobility purposes and then drowning them and feasting on their livers. But these tuna were chasing a fleeing target matching their speed and moving in the same direction. With no head-on collisions (orca) or tail-whacking (dolphins) on display. So I'd have to say it was what it clearly appeared to be, a largely inefficient way of catching a potential prey item that didn't seem to want to stay in the hunter's mouth. I'm fairly sure none of them got caught in the video (though I'm sure they have to catch some this way or they'd soon give up, presumably). Maybe greedy tuna hunt all small fish that flee from them (a true predatory instinct). They may always pursue garfish as a result of not caring too much about the species they chase. And garfish may just possibly be more than a match for them. At least over short distances. Tuna will have far better stamina, I'd have to assume, on the other hand. It's just weird the video didn't clearly show a single successful meal. It's an evolutionary arms race out there. The tuna were swimming for a meal whilst the plucky garfish were swimming for their lives. #ZenAndTheArtOfSavingLifeOnEarth

Exactly . Thankyou

The footage itself is nice. However, this does not apply to the editing with its fake splash sounds.

The whole clip is spot on splash sounds aswell . Great piece of work 👏.

From majestic in the ocean to stored in a can, ready to be savored with some mayo. Skipjack not the same as bluefin,, I know.

That sense of time stopping was you becoming fully present. You weren't lost in the incessant thought stream like we are all conditioned to be, we are in our heads all day long, we let thoughts define our experience but we never become curious about what a thought is made of. You were 100% fully logged into the visual field, the sounds, the sensations of the body etc. Wonderful and thankyou for sharing ❤

😂 I suggest, he did not expect a spiritual analysis of his experience. (But you are totally right)

@@JustDontMove111 ..and this is one of my fondest memories of my father. We shared something Special I keep in my heart

Trawling

Didn’t you have a go at catching it!!

Happily, it's not true, also polar bears are in rude good health, and penguins.

maybe they should stop sending tourist helicopters and cruises and smaller boats to both the arctic and the antarctic (in the case of penguins). @@joedennehy386

Really you see a video of one blue fin & now all the sudden all is good in the world lol

@@nevadaboy9769 Look at the numbers, bro. They're doing great.

@@joedennehy386 Polar bears are not threatened. They are just used for marketing purpose because they are photogenic.

100% miss, I think.😂

@@Kavaindia In this case tuna are using a technique where they crash into the shoals & then eat the disabled. Not politically correct but naturally effective !

Not politically correct? So PETA is going to file suit?@@cameroncameron2826

@@Kavaindia….they would have picked those Garfish up when they landed, that’s for sure!😉

At one not that long ago, they swam up the North Sea. Hopefully this is a sign they will once again do that.

Seas are warming up and species are moving around.

@@45H4Wand with the tuna come the 🦈🙏

garfish would beg to differ

garfish (and mackerel) are there because of the influx of big shoals of bait fish - hence the Tuna.@@ShastaBean Mackerel fishing in St Ives bay last November was exceptional.

The “miss” rate was really quite high wasnt it?

@@shakey2634 Yep indeed, i mean not like i see them starving with such gorgeous muscles but..

Don't worry, these guys "get theirs". A nice big bluefin like this literally has 15-20lbs of belly fat, which is the tastiest sushi on planet earth. It's called "toro"; japanese for "fatty bluefin tuna belly". It's unbelievably delicious. Anyway - the point is these big boys don't go hungry - even if they miss a few shots.

😂

😂😂😂 I came to the comments looking for this, they missed every single one

you have to look really carefully, but the one at 1:54 caught one

Most of the bait fish are eaten underwater after they’ve been stunned.

​@@ShastaBeanlol

Indeed. In this footage - their are at LEAST two giants. Having fished for these guys quite a bit - when you find a school of "horse mackerel"; they're thick as thieves.

Totally agree.

@JH-ck1nr Do you think the tuna in the 20's/30's would have been feeding on the huge herring shoals that used to be on the east coast? I like to add my props too - as others have said, once in a lifetime witness.

@@mattydare Yes, they vanished with the herring shoals. I am a life long scuba diver and this is why i love the seas and oceans, wonder and mystery. Thanks again.

The food chain was wrecked by the Herring overfishing. The herring is returning. The GW's will come back with the rest of the foodchain.

Боже мой! Они прекрасны! Наверное, я больше не смогу есть тунца...

Yep its to bad that was the last time that tuna will be seen breaching the surface, about an hour after this it was posing hanging upside down from the winch of one of those trawlers in the area!

Giant blues are doing just fine

Been telling those Garfish for ages the same thing, but will they listen (?) will they hell.

No chance, there's £££ literally jumping out of ocean... sadly

@@frankling9840 You clearly know nothing about the highly monitored blue fin population in our waters. 🤡

Blue fin are doing just fine, buttercup

They have been absent from British waters for a significant time cup cake, after the original fishery was decimated , so for it again to be just hammered would be a bit ignorant and short sighted in fisheries management terms , is that not reasonable tinkerbell.@@deletebilderberg ok a quick edit , just appeared on BBC a massive Blue Fin washed up dead, now as it had no predator damage (few things tackle a adult tuna that's healthy) that would highly suggest it died from from disease or stress, so it will be interesting to watch if those making making money out of the fish have the gumption to care correctly on recreational charters when it comes to proper catch and release , and that the release of a massive tired out fish could see them so stressed their hearts collapse and they just drown from muscle stress by just been unhooked and let go too early before proper recovery is that too much to ask.

*TRUE*

In victoriana times they was fished for pleasure/sport out of the north sea whitby/Scarborough even up to the 1950's

oh great! now those Asian fishing vessels will go there and destroy the whole population.

Different and smaller fish. Southern bluefin in SA.

Not smaller. You never saw a big one And ours are overfished too.

You beat me to the punch. hahahahaha

beautiful - if you aren't a garfish

That's the food chain of nature. Some eat. Some get eaten.

physically? correct. mentally? some of those garfish are going to need PTSD treatment

🤔 ummm I watched every tuna you captured on film run at the gar fish and knock them out of the water stunned them and eat em or just str8 up swallowed them in mid air

Yeah doesn’t look like they ate one!

I think he was like 1 for 8.

@@mixz9929we’re you watching the same video everyone else was, because I saw only one garfish actually get taken?

Cheers Frank :)

Prior to that, we called them "horse mackerel"

Indeed. These guys are top-tier athletes with nothing on their mind other than feeding. They're GREAT at it.

Thanks Richard :)

Absolutely!!!

It's illegal to kill. 25 boats have taken part in the CHART programme electronically tagging and releasing all fish caught for CEFAS in order to study their comeback. Conservation will be the priority.

@@westlakedon Thanks for the reply! This is awesome, such a powerful predator, but also beautiful in its power. I hope next time i'm surfing down in South Devon i'll get to see one one day.

Not going to lie, it is... Maybe not for the Garfish running for their lives but i see the beauty of that too...

How people pay to see dolphins on small boats , i wonder would people pay to see this as it looks more exciting to watch.

Tuna have always been in UK waters. They were here in abundance 70 years ago and got over fished, a ban was put in place 50 odd years ago. They have been back here in numbers for the last 7/8 years, so much so they are having a big effect on mackerel numbers.

Global warming 😂

Sadly enjoy them while they there, they on their way out wld be surprised to see them extinct in 50 yrs the way we raping our oceans

Isn’t everything that’s wrong due to climate change. My underwear didn’t come clean from the washing machine the other day, you guessed it, climate change!

Global warming 😂😂😂😂 Turn off your tv and get a life.

Did any jumping tuna actually get a baitfish in its mouth? In this video seems like the tuna are playing at scaring the baitfish to death! As the tuna reaches the maximum height of its jump, a baitfish is seen "flying" above the tuna.

@@cougar1861 Hm. Thinking back on it, I'm not sure. Remember that it seemed ineffective hunting, especially as the garfish they were hunting were only 30cm long. But then again, I was more concerned with not getting knocked out of the kayak.

@@henrikbergman4055 Thanks. Yes the video was quite exciting. I can't imagine being at the scene ... in a kayak!

These are half the size they used to be.

Yep , you can blame sushi for that

@@dougdavis8986 the he'll they are. Healthy just recently set the world record on a blue fin at nearly 1500 lb. The population of bluefin has recovered dramatically in The Last 5 Years

In UK waters it is illegal to kill or land Atlantic Blue Fin but it is legal for commercial angling boats to catch and release them, tagged. I wonder if any have been caught or found since tagging began (?)

Nice, hope you seen them and get some gnarly shots!

and one day end up in my tummy :D

They get HUGE

These were likely 600-700lb but they get up to 1200+

Mackerel are in no danger at all. They are not in danger.

Facts. 🤔

@@paulgibbons2320 They really are. The individual size overall has dropped in the Atlantic stocks. It is for sure over fishing in winter by the international supertrawlers. Tick tock for Mackies.

@@nospoon4799 the over size trawlers are a problem for sure.

Cheers Marc!