'hold my beer and watch this!'

[BushMasterBoy]

It is the "selling" of the fish that is illegal without the permit. If they just put the fish in the freezer and ate it, perfectly legal. We used to get all kinds of inspectors at the aquarium. To top it off, we used a drug to tranquilize the fish and it had to be stored in a locked refrigerator.

Link to the expensive tuna...

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...rcial-purposes

[newracer]

I guess it depends on what type of tuna it is.

[brutal]

A client told me recently he caught a tuna on a commercial boat 40-50 miles offshore that would have paid off his mortgage when sold.

15 minutes before they could make it back to the dock, the "season" was closed and they had to release it.

[hatidua]

It is the "selling" of the fish that is illegal without the permit. If they just put the fish in the freezer and ate it, perfectly legal.

I bought my HMS permit year after year after year, not because I enjoyed giving the government money, but because I wanted to give them less money, not more.

It is the "selling" of the fish that is illegal without the permit. If they just put the fish in the freezer and ate it, perfectly legal.

License-to-sell is a different critter than simply keeping for personal consumption but both require the annual tag. Catching/keeping an HMS off a dock is a no-no regardless of whether you want to sell it or not - and FL does not get a federal exemption on HMS species (that's akin to saying you can shoot elk, out of season, in downtown Denver as long as you don't want to sell it).

We used to get all kinds of inspectors at the aquarium. To top it off, we used a drug to tranquilize the fish and it had to be stored in a locked refrigerator.

You had BFT/YFT and billfish (or any HMS species) in your aquarium?

Link to the expensive tuna...

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...rcial-purposes

That's not the one I was thinking back to but that one certainly cost a whole lot more than I've ever paid for my annual HMS permit.

[sniper7]

You had BFT/YFT and billfish (or any HMS species) in your aquarium?

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doesnt everybody? They are at petsmart all the time

[BushMasterBoy]

https://www.facebook.com/randall.spain.9

here...you turn em in

and no tuna or any oceanic size fish in the aquarium...most were under five inches

Kinda sucks that you can't get a permit without a boat...as permits as only issued to a vessel...I guess you could always claim your boat sank with all your guns on board too...

[ThunderSquirrel]

Enlightening for me. I was under the impression you only needed the permit for vessel fishing, not that it was ONLY vessel fishing allowed.

[kidicarus13]

Link to the expensive tuna...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/07/...r-1-8-million/