However, his record stood for a further 20 years, when it was beaten by just a few pounds. And then, in 1979, a colossal fish was taken off the coast of Nova Scotia that weighed a smidgeon under 1500 pounds. That would have seemed an impossible dream to Jack Ross back in 1911, but he and Duncan Hodgson would surely be proud that their pioneering legacy lives on. Now the challenge for the future is to ensure that unsustainable commercial pressure on the fantastic blue-fin tuna does not condemn the species merely to distant memories and record books.
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‘It’s a dog otter,’ Geordie agreed. ‘Definitely different from this morning.’
The otter kept watching us, although we never seemed to get any closer, despite the fact we were drifting. He must have been backpedalling to keep his distance while he studied these strange people invading his watery habitat, and then, like the earlier encounter, he simply slipped below the surface and was gone.
‘I’m going to enjoy hearing you describe this one in the bar tonight,’ I told Geordie. ‘It might be better to keep quiet about it, because no bugger’s going to believe u
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