BLUEFIN IN MOTION

• Although it doesn’t receive much publicity, catching bluefin tuna around the British Isles is nothing new. In the middle of this past century, a historically famous tuna fishery existed in the North Sea, that frigid expanse of gray water that separates the eastern coast of England from Scandinavia. Sportsmen chartered motherships to take them offshore to rendezvous with the commercial herring and mackerel fleet, where they knew they would also find large schools of bluefin, eagerly mopping up the inevitable bycatch each time a net was hauled. Lorenzo Mitchell Henry landed the heaviest fish off Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1933;