A lucky fisherman scored big with a 1,000-pound tuna off of the coast of Canso in Nova Scotia, as the bluefin tuna will provide thousands of meals for sushi lovers.
Marc Towers, 30, battled the monstrous 1,000-pound tuna for two hours before he was able to reel it in.
It was well worth the strenuous effort, however, as the fish is expected to sell for $25,000 in Japan, where it will be diced and chopped into 20,000 pieces of sushi.
“We didn’t realize how big it was until it was about 15feet away from the surface,” said Neil Cooke, who was on the fishing trip with Towers.
“It took Marc two hours to pull in, and we had started to see the shape of it when the skipper said ‘This could be a big fish.’
“All of a sudden it broke the surface and everyone said ‘It’s a monster!’”
The 1,000-pound tuna was so massive, that they could not bring it onto the boat, but had to tie it with a rope and tow it for 4 miles.
“The deck hand made a lasso and tied it around the end of the fish and we dragged it through the water back to the dock,” said Cooke.
The giant fish was then lifted by crane and forklift over to the weighing station, where the display boasted four digits.
The record for a Bluefin tuna is held by Ken Fraser, who caught a 1,496-pound tuna off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1979.
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