The blue fin tuna is often described as the most exciting sport fish any fishermen can ever hope to catch. In New Hampshire alone, an estimated 200-to-300 fishermen hold tuna licenses. About one hundred of those licenses belong to commercial fishermen. For them, the blue fin tuna represents an increasingly critical component of a highly regulated industry.
But fisherman here on the Eastern Seaboard must contend with very tight quota restrictions. They say the restrictions benefit not the species ? but the fishermen?s competitors on the other side of the Atlantic.
New Hampshire Public Radio?s Doug MacPherson reports.
