The ‘Harpoon Hunters’ star compares waiting for a tuna with a ‘sniper who is waiting to shoot’
Big up to the great requires patience and steel nerves.
So says Captain Niko Chararales, one of the stars of the new reality series “Harpoon Hunters”, about those who venture to the Atlantic in search of a blonde tuna.
“I think it’s the hardest part of this industry … When you get caught up in these fish, it’s almost like a time for me to slow down,” he told Fox News Digital. “It’s almost like a sniper waiting to shoot. Your heart is pounding in your chest and you have to make a decision when you throw away.”
Craprales said that “pressure” tuna harvesting “is always present because we try very hard to get to the day in the day when all the pressure on you, and you know, you are not just you, it is your whole crew and your pilot depends on you to make you That shot and you make a decision when you will throw away. ”
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He said that when you “shoot and miss, you can feel a collective” disappointment.
“There are many days where you can only get one blow, so the pressure is definitely on you as an attacker, which is a great responsibility,” Craprales added.
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Said the main difference between his team and “Wicked tuna” The fisherman, who use sticks and rolls, is that his crews “actively hunt fish”.
“The dichotomy of the two industries is quite drastic where, you know, to ‘Wicked Tuna’, they use sticks and rolls and go to one place and somehow dedicate themselves to a place on a day and wait for the fish to come to them,” Ceprales told Fox News Digital. “While we are in fishing harpun, you know, we are actively hunting fish outside. So, we try to find it. And then, you know, when we find them … We keep an electric harpoon, and we try to get to that perfect place to shoot, so it’s that quite a different fishing style. ”
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Captain Joe Dion said they can also see many wild animals when they are at work.
“It’s just an amazing way to get an insight into what we do in the summer,” Dion said. “We see all kinds of wildlife. We see whales, birds, ppits, dolphins, sharks. So, as, you can really see how we live our summers and participate in a commercial fishing that is very sustainable.”
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Dion said he was one of the most difficult parts of the job to find tuna.
Cynthia C2 captain Tyler Macallister on the preacher, throws the harpun. (Discovery)
“They don’t have to stay on the surface. Certain atmospheric conditions allow them to be comfortable on the surface, and only a certain time of the year,” he explained. “So, find them the first challenge. And then, obviously, when we find them, we sneak behind their backs and captain Nika, Matt and me, we have to throw a harpun and try to guess them. So, predicting when we throw away if you don’t have good, you don’t have good chances because it’s too far hard. ”
Dion added that stormy weather in their small, metal boats can also be very dangerous.
Ezyduzita crew, including Captain Nika Chaprales, Kevin Ohlson and Tom Teannie. (Discovery)
“Many times in fishing harpun, the fish is far from the shore,” he said. “So we will have to go 50, 60 miles, 70 miles in some days. And in some days the sun goes down, and we literally have four hours home. And you don’t get home one before one, two in the morning we had a thunderstorm storm, and we are actually In a small small boat that has a metal tower and a metal popper, so you can imagine when these fronts are rolling through which there is electricity, it is nice, quite hairy. “
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Ceprales said their jobs can also become “hairy” when things don’t go according to plan.
“Sometimes it doesn’t go according to plan, and that electric charge, you know, loose plugs or fish doesn’t start for any reason,” he explained. “And when that happens, you know, the fish takes 600 feet of rope leading to the polylopta we call rig. And that is very, very similar, you know, how they fought with the seas the movie ‘Ralje’. “
“For me, the time is slowing down in some way. It’s almost like a sniper who is waiting for him to fall. Your heart beats in your chest and you have to make a decision on when you will throw away.”
Craprales said that when that happens, “The only way to catch that fish is to pull it with your hand, and those fish reach up to £ 1000 and are incredibly strong. So when you pull that equipment with your hand, you know, you have a guy who pulls it on , and then you have another guy behind him that winds up to try everything nicely and neatly because if that fish decides to escape and take off, and if you bite for that rope, you absolutely can’t stop that fish. aspect of what we do. ”
Cynthia C2, looking for blonde, with Tyler Macallister, Sean Davis and Todd Espinol on Grgec. (Discovery)
He said that the fish that the ranges of 73 inches and £ 200 up to £ 116 and almost £ 900 ranged.
Due to the effort to increase the population of blonde tuna in terms of sustainability, Craprales said that they now have a limit of five fish per day, but when he was young, he remembers that he went out with his father, Harpuna caught 11 tuna and earned $ 91,000.
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“So it was my personal best day,” he said.
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Ceprales said his father died two years ago, fighting with a giant blonde tuna and that he thinks he has “big shoes he has to fill in.”
“To be the last thing he did in his life after leaving such an impact on fisheries [industry] – Not only does it have the reputation of one of the best fishermen, but all the things he did, preserving the based on, you know, air research and marking blonde tuna for preservation – this is definitely a big shoe to be filled. And I definitely feel that pressure. And, you know, I don’t want to give too much. You will need to turn on to see. But I feel like, you know, that I am entering this role as Captain Ezyduzit, you know, that heritage and that name. I, I feel like I was at least a half -decent job filled with a legend, “he said.
“Harpoon Hunters” premiered on Friday at Discovery, and is also available on the Discovery Plus.
