UNBELIEVABLE Giant Bluefin TUNA chasing Garfish in South Devon!
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- A sight I never thought I'd witness, as around eight Tuna were hunting huge shoals of Garfish only metres from the shore. The Garfish would leap out of the water in an attempt to escape, as the Tuna attacked from below.
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But you are not seeing what they catch below the surface. By the size of these tuna, they are not missing that many!
Very Good,Thank you for Posting
Fair point...
id say even if they miss the fish is properly stunned then picked off
Me to i always say do you eat dolphins too
Given how badly the bluefin have been overfished, this is a delightful sight. I would give this video 10 thumbs up if I could!
The overfishing of bluefin tuna was covered extensively but it's quite amazing to see how the recovery of the bluefin tuna gets almost no airtime! Their population has rebounded substantially in the last few years.
Yes it's delightful to see 😊
Too bad though that it's only eight, should be way more.
@@traciewalker8506 population hasn't been as high as it is now in almost 30 years.
@@deannelson9565 Thats nice, lets keep this going until there are 100x more. The work isnt done.
Nature at its best- a beautiful living “ art form “
Living and fishing(for pleasure/ food) in South Devon it has been a joy to watch these magnificent creatures return to our waters over the last 10 yrs. Let us pray that commercial interests do not destroy this amazing recovery and it remains a spectacle for generations to come. We can live in hope.
God aint gotxanything to do with it its there food returnig
they have come all the way to Denmark in the Baltic Sea in big numbers the last 7-8 years, they are hunting herring and mackerel
Where is South Devon? I google it and nothing on the sea came up
@@4wheelliving132Devon is West of Cornwall in the UK.
@@donframeli9855if people were aware of Gods gifts, they wouldnt liquidate life for cash. Go against natural law, is to go against god. The only reason for food shortages is due to evil people, so yes. He has everything to do with the current mindset. Cheers
WOW!! Big Powerful and Majestic Tuna in all their beauty. That’s an amazing piece of footage. Thank you for sharing.
From majestic in the ocean to stored in a can, ready to be savored with some mayo. Skipjack not the same as bluefin,, I know.
Wow! 🤩 Those garfish are pretty slippery 😂
100% miss, I think.😂
Not politically correct? So PETA is going to file suit?@cameroncameron2826
@@Kavaindia….they would have picked those Garfish up when they landed, that’s for sure!😉
Absolutely incredible Henry! Thank you for showing them in all their magnificence! 🙂
Exactly . Thankyou
The footage itself is nice. However, this does not apply to the editing with its fake splash sounds.
The whole clip is spot on splash sounds aswell . Great piece of work 👏.
I boycotted eating bluefin tuna like 15 years ago because they are overfished. I tell everyone the story about this amazing fish and hope they will not go extinct. What a beautiful video!
I would to but there is no chance Bluefin tuna will ever appear in anything I eat, being so expensive and rare, but if I had the chance I’d be like you. I wish everyone would boycott this species. They keep telling us the more common Yellowfin is plentiful but that’s just not possible with the 10’s of thousands of tonnes being removed from the ocean every day or week. A species have a critical mass and when this threshold is not maintained they can’t withstand simple population pressures such as a lack of food in one area due to El Niño or La Niña. The major currents are under threat from climate change so that may add extra pressure on fish populations.
@@teeanahera8949
You’re obviously was well versed on the blue fin population in our waters as you are to the reality of ‘climate change’
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Tuna are not overfished. A reason to stop eating tuna might be the collateral killing of dolphins when fishing tuna though.
And BTW, just because a fish is that big and looks amazing to us humans, its life is not more or less valuable than that of other fish.
More people on planet earth means more rich people who will pay more for that meal.
Eating tuna will be beneficial to garfish and other smaller fish in the short term, but in the long term will then have garfish on the menu as a delicacy.
Sad.
Nope!! I will never stop eating them!
I think every attack, from what I saw, the blue fin came up empty. Seemed every time, the target was knocked away.
Beautiful creatures, awesome footage!
I think those tuna were barking up the wrong tree, there! :))
Ever catch and release a Garfish? I have, they’re very fragile. I believe the ones you saw stunned were actually dead and eaten later. So maybe the Bluefin’s hunting tactics are similar to the Orca’s where it’s a two part plan?
@@rjo8500 No, not much of a fisherman, and good point about the stunning, I know that an orca hit me hard enough, they could probably eat me before I was re-awake, not that they would need to stun us to eat us.
@@Hardrock1a Lol! True
@@rjo8500 From the video, you can see garfish at times make several leaps out of the water to avoid a persistent tuna. Re cetaceans, I know of dolphins swimming into shoals and giving the fish a good whack with their tail to stun them - before picking them off easily. Then, I've heard of orca headbutting great whites, flipping them over for tonic immobility purposes and then drowning them and feasting on their livers.
But these tuna were chasing a fleeing target matching their speed and moving in the same direction. With no head-on collisions (orca) or tail-whacking (dolphins) on display. So I'd have to say it was what it clearly appeared to be, a largely inefficient way of catching a potential prey item that didn't seem to want to stay in the hunter's mouth.
I'm fairly sure none of them got caught in the video (though I'm sure they have to catch some this way or they'd soon give up, presumably). Maybe greedy tuna hunt all small fish that flee from them (a true predatory instinct). They may always pursue garfish as a result of not caring too much about the species they chase. And garfish may just possibly be more than a match for them. At least over short distances. Tuna will have far better stamina, I'd have to assume, on the other hand. It's just weird the video didn't clearly show a single successful meal.
It's an evolutionary arms race out there. The tuna were swimming for a meal whilst the plucky garfish were swimming for their lives.
#ZenAndTheArtOfSavingLifeOnEarth
So wonderful! Thanks for showing this beauty, it’s not how people usually see tuna 🐟
right, they usually see it in a tin or sandwich infront of them.
Right. I mean, where's the label?
When you think that bluefin tuna were on the brink of exinction in the North Atlantic for almost three decades... What a marvelous success story their protection is !
Happily, it's not true, also polar bears are in rude good health, and penguins.
maybe they should stop sending tourist helicopters and cruises and smaller boats to both the arctic and the antarctic (in the case of penguins). @@joedennehy386
Most of the world's countries do not protect Bluefin because they are so migratory. Their numbers dwindle every year just so Japan can have Sushi. I hope they all get mercury poison from these beautiful animals.
Really you see a video of one blue fin & now all the sudden all is good in the world lol
@@nevadaboy9769 Look at the numbers, bro. They're doing great.
I saw with my own eyes this amazing nature spectacle: I was trolling offshore with my father and we saw something astonishing: we heard a water noise at first, then we turned and we saw what seemed a silver chinese dragon coming out from water and re entering the water, up and down, off and in like a single creature made of...I can't even imagine how many needlefish. Then came the silence and after few seconds the water exploded with many tunas hunting. It was as if time had stopped for a while.
That sense of time stopping was you becoming fully present. You weren't lost in the incessant thought stream like we are all conditioned to be, we are in our heads all day long, we let thoughts define our experience but we never become curious about what a thought is made of. You were 100% fully logged into the visual field, the sounds, the sensations of the body etc. Wonderful and thankyou for sharing ❤
😂 I suggest, he did not expect a spiritual analysis of his experience. (But you are totally right)
@@ConceptualJoesInquiryFace ..and this is one of my fondest memories of my father. We shared something Special I keep in my heart
Thank you for sharing these amazing footage. I have never seen such footage before! Just mesmerizing how these ballets are played out in nature.
Congratulations for the topwater tuna eats and blow ups. These fishes are really fast and it's almost imposible to see the attack even if they are feeding near to you. To catch this 1 second attack moment and récord with this quality is an amazing job and a gift for everyone. Thanks for publishing this awesome experience 😀❤👌👌👌
I never knew that Tuna swam off our coast, magnificent creatures.
At one not that long ago, they swam up the North Sea.
Hopefully this is a sign they will once again do that.
Seas are warming up and species are moving around.
@@45H4Wand with the tuna come the 🦈🙏
garfish would beg to differ
garfish (and mackerel) are there because of the influx of big shoals of bait fish - hence the Tuna.@@ShastaBean Mackerel fishing in St Ives bay last November was exceptional.
Note: No Garfish were harmed in the making of this video. Thank you.
physically? correct.
mentally? some of those garfish are going to need PTSD treatment
🤔 ummm I watched every tuna you captured on film run at the gar fish and knock them out of the water stunned them and eat em or just str8 up swallowed them in mid air
Yeah doesn’t look like they ate one!
I think he was like 1 for 8.
@@mixz9929we’re you watching the same video everyone else was, because I saw only one garfish actually get taken?
this is one of the coolest videos ive seen in a long time
That was absolutely brilliant. 🤩
Such beautiful footage.💖
That is the most amazing footage off the UK i have ever seen in my life. I have books showing Big Game Fishing off Whitby in the 1920's and 1930's for them, but to see them back like that is simply wonderful. You cannot tell me Great White Sharks do not visit our waters, this just backs that too. Thanks for sharing this footage.
Totally agree.
@JH-ck1nr Do you think the tuna in the 20's/30's would have been feeding on the huge herring shoals that used to be on the east coast?
I like to add my props too - as others have said, once in a lifetime witness.
@@mattydare Yes, they vanished with the herring shoals. I am a life long scuba diver and this is why i love the seas and oceans, wonder and mystery. Thanks again.
The food chain was wrecked by the Herring overfishing. The herring is returning. The GW's will come back with the rest of the foodchain.
Боже мой! Они прекрасны! Наверное, я больше не смогу есть тунца...
Beautiful. What a sight to behold. Thank you for sharing. 👍🦈
incredible clips. I know how much difficult it is to capture without seeing what happens under surface of water. Admirations for the time spent and hardwork.
Cant help but feel bad for Tuna missing a lot of attempts, still what a powerful and majestic fish, this 2min video made me feel much better and relaxed somehow, thanks!
The “miss” rate was really quite high wasnt it?
@@shakey2634 Yep indeed, i mean not like i see them starving with such gorgeous muscles but..
Don't worry, these guys "get theirs". A nice big bluefin like this literally has 15-20lbs of belly fat, which is the tastiest sushi on planet earth. It's called "toro"; japanese for "fatty bluefin tuna belly". It's unbelievably delicious. Anyway - the point is these big boys don't go hungry - even if they miss a few shots.
So accustomed to only seeing Sharks, Dolphins and Whales breaching...this is simply amazing to see!
Kudos to the Camera team for capturing this in spectacular fashion....yaayyy!! 🤩🤩
Yep its to bad that was the last time that tuna will be seen breaching the surface, about an hour after this it was posing hanging upside down from the winch of one of those trawlers in the area!
Well, if I hadn’t seen this video, I would have never believed that would happen around our waters. Fantastic 👍
*TRUE*
In victoriana times they was fished for pleasure/sport out of the north sea whitby/Scarborough even up to the 1950's
People think of tuna as just something we eat but they are INCREDIBLE predators. This one is magnificent!!!
Indeed. In this footage - their are at LEAST two giants. Having fished for these guys quite a bit - when you find a school of "horse mackerel"; they're thick as thieves.
I have never seen video of a Bluefin Tuna. This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much Henry, you started my Sunday off with something amazing.
Beautiful sight. We have massive breeding grounds in South Australia and it’s not difficult to find massive tuna, but I’m very happy to see them in your waters
oh great! now those Asian fishing vessels will go there and destroy the whole population.
Different and smaller fish. Southern bluefin in SA.
Not smaller. You never saw a big one And ours are overfished too.
An amazing sight that this lad originally from South Devon finds positive for the future just as long as they
escape the over-fishing from our neighbours beyond UK shores.
wow - this is amazing footage. Easy to see how "flying fish" evolved! Congratulations on "catching" these beautiful fish in all their glory and thank you for sharing.
Absolutely stunning! No matter how many wildlife films I see there is always something I haven't seen before! It's just sad that this Bluefin is surely hunted just as rapaciously as he is hunting these Garfish. In 2023 a 463lb Bluefin sold for 275,000 dollars in Japan. So seeing these miracles has become more rare than ever.
Incredibly beautiful to see these Magnificent creatures in their feeding frenzy! Thanks for sharing this amazing filming 🐟🌏💖
You beat me to the punch. hahahahaha
beautiful - if you aren't a garfish
That's the food chain of nature. Some eat. Some get eaten.
Nice to see them back on show lets hope they are left to strengthen their population
No chance, there's £££ literally jumping out of ocean... sadly
@@frankling9840
You clearly know nothing about the highly monitored blue fin population in our waters.
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Blue fin are doing just fine, buttercup
They have been absent from British waters for a significant time cup cake, after the original fishery was decimated , so for it again to be just hammered would be a bit ignorant and short sighted in fisheries management terms , is that not reasonable tinkerbell.@@deletebilderberg ok a quick edit , just appeared on BBC a massive Blue Fin washed up dead, now as it had no predator damage (few things tackle a adult tuna that's healthy) that would highly suggest it died from from disease or stress, so it will be interesting to watch if those making making money out of the fish have the gumption to care correctly on recreational charters when it comes to proper catch and release , and that the release of a massive tired out fish could see them so stressed their hearts collapse and they just drown from muscle stress by just been unhooked and let go too early before proper recovery is that too much to ask.
Wow! Speechless...more so as had no idea they are in our shores! Madness.. many thanks 👐💛
Most never see how incredibly large and fast these tuna are. Great footage.
What an absolutely stunning piece of video footage. We are down in Falmouth soon and will be looking out for these stunning fish. Awesome. Thanks for posting.
how did it get so big without being able to eat anything?
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😂😂😂 I came to the comments looking for this, they missed every single one
you have to look really carefully, but the one at 1:54 caught one
Most of the bait fish are eaten underwater after they’ve been stunned.
@@ShastaBeanlol
Thank you for a gorgeous glimpse of nature at it's finest!
Mesmerizing. Never seen footage like this. Thank you very much for posting this video.
This is awesome! I hope Devon / UK start immediately the protection of these, and make it illegal to catch.
It's illegal to kill. 25 boats have taken part in the CHART programme electronically tagging and releasing all fish caught for CEFAS in order to study their comeback. Conservation will be the priority.
@@westlakedon Thanks for the reply! This is awesome, such a powerful predator, but also beautiful in its power. I hope next time i'm surfing down in South Devon i'll get to see one one day.
Amazing!! Never seen anything like it, thank you! ✌🇨🇦
Awesome video! What an experience! I hope you go back again and will see this again. Thank you for sharing the video.
Without a doubt, the best Tuna video I have ever seen. Thank you for the wonderful video.😊
Awesome! Thanks for catching and sharing this!
Gorgeous! Thanks for capturing this on film and sharing!
Excellent footage. So lovely to see this, there were so many passing the UK at one time.
Brilliant,did not realise we had tuna around our shores!
Thanks you for sharing this amazing reportage. I hope this bluefin as a long healthy life. 🙏🏽
Nature is so beautiful!
Thankyou for capturing these scenes 😊
Wow I have never seen a blue fin tuna in real life, nature is wonderful thank you for sharing this😊👏
I am completely stunned by the sheer size of the TUNA! Although they look rather clumsy flying from the water, what they lack in grace they make up in their massive POWER and what appears to be tireless stamina and strength! I think the best bet for a garfish in that pod would be a quick change of direction with a sudden and unobvious veering off in a different heading! It might then have a chance of escape. Great video, it fills my mind with the possibilities that present themselves in a life under the sea. Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
Been telling those Garfish for ages the same thing, but will they listen (?) will they hell.
Great photos! You really bring home what a great animal it is. Thank you Frank
Cheers Frank :)
Incredible footage, and fantastic production quality. Never landed a GIANT, but have fished tuna a lot - they're absolutely incredible animals. Their power is beyond description, and their endurance even greater. Truly awe inspiring.
Thank you for this video. Truly beautiful
❤absolutely amazing footage and action. I spent many of my formative years windsurfing off the coast of S Devon. I saw basking sharks, orca, oceanic sunfish, but never never imagined for a minute that giant bluefin would also be around. Incredible … and brilliant coverage !
WOW ....I have watched a lot of videos in my time and nothing like this. Absolutely outstanding action that any fishermen would dream to witness
Thank you so much!
I am delighted to see this video. I didn't know they are coming back. May this continue!
But a point from a pensioner. When I was young we didn't call these fish 'tuna'. There is a proper English word, because they should be a native fish. It is 'tunny'. That's what they were called when they used to be fished off the east coast of Yorkshire.
May the tunny come back!
Prior to that, we called them "horse mackerel"
A couple of years ago I was kayaking in Grande Harvre Bay Guernsey and the same thing happened, Tuna chasing a mass of Garfish. I didn't see the Tuna but I did see the water errupt like a depth charge going off. I paddled out to a fisherman who was in the area at the time and he reckoned the Tuna were as big as his boat.
Beautiful capture.
Amazing to watch these beautiful giants chase after Garfish.
and one day end up in my tummy :D
Wow ! I didn’t know tuna will jump out of the water like. What a beast.
Great shot.
Indeed. These guys are top-tier athletes with nothing on their mind other than feeding. They're GREAT at it.
I have to agree, a fantastic film. It didn't look as if the tuna actually caught one, but maybe he got it once it fell back into the ocean. Thank you for this.
Absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing!
How people pay to see dolphins on small boats , i wonder would people pay to see this as it looks more exciting to watch.
Terrific shooting of a magnificent yet poignant struggle to survive...thank you for your documentation!! More please!!
Beautiful footage. Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for showing us this beauty of nature.
Fantastic footage. Isn't nature amazing ❤
Not going to lie, it is... Maybe not for the Garfish running for their lives but i see the beauty of that too...
As a fisherman that loves topwater action this is EPIC!!! Can only imagine hooking into one of those bad boys. YIKES!!!
Gorgeous, thank you! 👍🤗
Spectacular ! Thank you !
Spectacular, superbly edited footage.
Those were some big tunas!
I was able to watch giant tuna hunting in Brittany last year from the coast. Incredible. Video reminded me of this fantastic spectacle. Thanks for sharing!
Incredible film! Its like you knew exactly where the fish were going to surface!
First time seeing that fish in its natural environment and feeding. Great work. Love it
Experienced this from my kayak from maybe 20m away in 6m deep (!) water in the Mediterranean. Was both scary and amazing.
Did any jumping tuna actually get a baitfish in its mouth? In this video seems like the tuna are playing at scaring the baitfish to death! As the tuna reaches the maximum height of its jump, a baitfish is seen "flying" above the tuna.
@@cougar1861 Hm. Thinking back on it, I'm not sure. Remember that it seemed ineffective hunting, especially as the garfish they were hunting were only 30cm long. But then again, I was more concerned with not getting knocked out of the kayak.
@@henrikbergman4055 Thanks. Yes the video was quite exciting. I can't imagine being at the scene ... in a kayak!
Amazing video, so good to see Tuna (Tunny) back in UK waters!
Thank you for your amazing video.
Beautiful scoring of this video; thank you 👍
Awesome stuff man. I'm gonna be photographing tuna next week on a boat down in cornwall !
Can't wait 😁
Nice, hope you seen them and get some gnarly shots!
❤Beautifull Nature❤
Nice to see Tuna of this size haven't all been fished out yet
These are half the size they used to be.
Yep , you can blame sushi for that
@@dougdavis8986 the he'll they are. Healthy just recently set the world record on a blue fin at nearly 1500 lb. The population of bluefin has recovered dramatically in The Last 5 Years
Absolutely brilliant camerawork Henry. What an amazing sight and long may it continue.
Thanks Richard :)
fantastic footage Henry, thanks for sharing
What a truly wonderful sight.
Enjoyed this immensely!
So powerful and majestic....thanks
Amazing footage thank you.
Tuna have an intricate heat-exchange system in their bloodstream, which allows them to maintain a higher core body temperature than the surrounding water. Basically two intercoolers that keep the heat away from the gills, so they absorb more oxygen, and have warm blood to drive the muscles more effectively. Awesome predators!
counter current exchange
They can be called almost warm blooded. Also they say that they never stop growing. And never stop swimming. Probably the most interesting fish on Earth really. We still know next to nothing about them too.
@@nospoon4799 Definitely fascinating. At least, until we wipe everything out.
Great video, enjoyed it. Didn't know tuna were that big ? Well done 👍
They get HUGE
These were likely 600-700lb but they get up to 1200+
Extraordinary footage! Thank you for posting it
SPECTACULAR FOOTAGE!!!!
BEAUTIFUL!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
They're such beautiful animals. They deserve to be protected from us
Absolutely!!!
A great video I actually witnessed something similar in 1993 a couple of hundred yards from the shore of Aberwrystwyth chasing mackerel. They used to be very common around the whole coast of the UK until the vast herring schoals were greatly depleted which was their main source of food but the herring have increased in vast numbers hence the return of the bluefin tuna. We now need the mackerel to be protected before the same happens to them and go the way that the herring went. We need to stop the over fishing of these and other essential fish species and the taking of small immature fish, that have no chance of breeding and replenishing fish stocks, and using them as fertiliser oh well rant over, and great to see the return of this magnificent fish.
Mackerel are in no danger at all. They are not in danger.
Facts. 🤔
@@paulgibbons2320 They really are. The individual size overall has dropped in the Atlantic stocks. It is for sure over fishing in winter by the international supertrawlers. Tick tock for Mackies.
@@nospoon4799 the over size trawlers are a problem for sure.
I've been waiting 20 years to see that thank you 🖐️
That was awesome thank you for sharing
Those Tuna are beasts. It always shocks me how big Tuna get to. Tuna look like a prehistoric fish akin to Piranha. I like to eat Tuna but when you see them in the wild it feels wrong to catch such magnificent creatures for food.
Superb video footage. Thank you for sharing. Such magnificent fish.
The marvels of Nature. Beautiful video.
Wow, simply fantastic footage!
Absolutely outstanding footage, great capture. I fish for these in Western Australia. Having fished UK for many years when I was a youngster, I'd never would have thought you would find these off UK coast.
Brilliant.
Hermosos peces pura vida
Absolutely magnificent and thank you 😊
wow ...... just wow. Thank you for sharing this video.