DISCOVERY'S NEW SHOW "SWORDS"

Set the TiVo already

 

Show looks interesting but I also saw them dump a perfectly good sword to rot for no good reason. I think Discovery is going to glamorize longliners in this show and not show the downsides of this industry (ie. tons of bycatch).

 

I will try to watch it. Sounds interesting.

 

I am looking forward to it but I hope they dont show just one side. Discovery seems to be pretty fair in the past. Let's hope they show every side. Im sure the whale wars/ hippy camp will nail them hard if they dont.

 

Go back and read the disclaimer at the beginning of the show.

 

I dont agree with them throwing back the small Sword....

 

Well, At least I learned how to "carefully release" a Mako.
Gaff them in the gills three times and poke them in the brain with a knife. Amazing how low there bycatch rate is too.

 

to be fair, I don;t think they poked it in the brain with a knife....or did I miss it? They were tapping it on the head to get it to calm down, which works very well. Perhaps I missed the knife to the brain......but the gaffs is the neck I did see and that was odd. Can they not keep those fsh as well?

 

Well, At least I learned how to "carefully release" a Mako.
Gaff them in the gills three times and poke them in the brain with a knife. Amazing how low there bycatch rate is too.

I thought that was the way you release them....

 

Its a little bit different fighting those fish on a longline than your everyday rod and reel. The line might be 600lb test but when you have 30 miles of it out, its not all that much.


As for the mako, a knife was never put in its head. I wouldnt doubt it if it was kept and sold.

 

I enjoyed the show much better than huntin crab. I guess its just the fish killing mentality. i am sure they kept the mako.

 

Lets just get a boat and go unhook thier clips from the long line and clip them into a rod a reel...

 

Im down for that :] lol

 

always cheering for the whalers

 

always cheering for the whalers

me too....they are a nutty bunch of hippys fighting for what they believe in for sure! As for the sword fishing...I got pissed off when they gaffed that mako in the gills too "we have to remove the hook to release it" is what the deck hand said I believe....they do waste quite a bit, and unlike the crab boys... I ENJOY seeing these longliners suffer some hardship, at least the crab boys keep only the legal crab and throw back the females and juvenilles

 

those people on whale wars put themselves in more danger than anything else.

when the japanese went ahead and killed all those whales in front of them it just showed that you they cant do anything and pretty much all their actions to try to stop it are useless.

 

they tend to not show the killing part. the blood and the fighting fish. All we see is the fish being tallied onto the deck without much movement. that part bores me but the story line is great!