Kamikaze albacore
A few years back, I wrote up an item for our news pages based on a most unusual catch: bluefin tuna that had come into the shallow surf of a Southern California beach. As I recall, a fellow grabbed one of the apparently disoriented fish.
That came to mind when I heard about an Aussie man who recently had a similar experience on the New South Wales coast. Shannon Bruce was walking on the beach when he and his pal, Mark Williams — who recounted the story to Fishing World — saw the fat albacore tuna (normally found far offshore in open seas) trying to beach itself. The men tried to liberate the kamikaze albacore but it kept coming back — until another chap snatched it up to liberate it into his freezer.
Fishing World notes that unusually warm water has lingered off the continent’s southeast coast and this is not the only strange catch of late.
