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I'm pretty sure that's not correct. How can you say any of the Tunas or Mahi don't have commercial value? Or swordfish? I'm sure their are many others. They all have commercial value now, why would that change?

I'm going to assume he means taken from the Gulf of Mexico. I have absolutely no stats to back this up but I wouldn't think too much commercial pelagic fishing is done in the Gulf due to the distance having to be traveled compared to the Atlantic. We have seen a couple long liners out there but I don't recall ever seeing any other commercial vessels in blue water

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Posted by Galactic Inquisitor

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Posted on 8/28/14 at 8:15 am to redneck

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We have seen a couple long liners out there but I don't recall ever seeing any other commercial vessels in blue water

I have seen fleets of small trolling vessels at the edge of the canyon before. They're there.

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Posted by JasonL79

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Posted on 8/28/14 at 8:32 am to redneck

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I have absolutely no stats to back this up but I wouldn't think too much commercial pelagic fishing is done in the Gulf due to the distance having to be traveled compared to the Atlantic. We have seen a couple long liners out there but I don't recall ever seeing any other commercial vessels in blue water

There are some out there. In the 80's & 90's there was probably around 150+ long line boats in Louisiana. Not it is probably down to about 20 or less.

They also have some boats in Texas and in the panhandle of Florida.

Imports (fresh tuna, mahi,etc.) from South America and Asia and regulations (difficulties in getting permits and restrictions like no live bait for long liners) plus a few other factors have changed that.

This post was edited on 8/28/14 at 8:40 am

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Posted by JAB528

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Posted on 8/28/14 at 9:01 am to redneck

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I'm going to assume he means taken from the Gulf of Mexico. I have absolutely no stats to back this up but I wouldn't think too much commercial pelagic fishing is done in the Gulf due to the distance having to be traveled compared to the Atlantic. We have seen a couple long liners out there but I don't recall ever seeing any other commercial vessels in blue water

I've seen a few green stickers out there, but there's wayyyyyy more guys on the east coast.

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