After a busy two weeks of fishing activity, Prince Edward Island’s initial tuna season trickled to a close Monday.
The season opened on 15 July with all 359 members of the P.E.I. fleet plus the native council eligible to obtain one tag per boat.
As usual, most participants choose to wait until late in the allocation period to utilize their tag, banking on the tuna bulking up on nearby feeding grounds. A spokesman at Royal Star said Monday the fish landed late in the season were, indeed, larger than those hooked early in the summer.
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