“We’re acting like this is ‘Unsolved Mysteries.’ We all know this,” a Florida Keys charter boat fishing captain said. “You can’t go hunting deer with machine guns.”
He removed the discarded line by hand from the ocean during a recent outing on his Drop Back charter boat, which he operates out of Islamorada.
And, it’s because of this practice that Reynolds and other charter captains, as well as recreational anglers, say they are seeing fewer mahi mahi out in the ocean, and the ones they are catching are much smaller than these multi-generational fishermen have been used to catching throughout their lives.
He said longliners have recently begun targeting mahi in Puerto Rico. Representatives from the Bluewater Fishermen’s Association, the trade group representing longliners, could not be reached for comment. “This fishery has gone from healthy to almost nonexistent in 36 months; that’s the life span of a fish,” said Larry Wren, owner of First Choice Charters in Islamorada.
Not only do people fly in from around the world to fish for mahi in the Keys, they pay a lot for charter boats to go after them. Unlike other species that can be lured to a boat using chum, mahi fishing is more akin to hunting.
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