Fiji > New Caledonia photo shoot

Aquamante
Vries Peter Pons
Thu 20 Nov 2014 08:57

The fish processing plant on board Aquamante at work:

 

A 10.2 kg 80cm big eye tuna by trawling some 100m of line with an orange-white medium sized Rapala.

 

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Gutsy work.

 

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What’s left for a burial at sea after Daph had her way with this tuna.

 

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Freshest export quality tuna, ready to be frozen. Remainder ended up as sashimi the same evening and tuna steaks the next afternoon.

 

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The asym up for the first time in more than 2 years.

 

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Sunrise near New Cal with 1 knot of wind.

 

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Land! SE New Caledonia, close to entering the Havannah Pass.

 

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