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First giant tuna caught off Yorkshire since 1960s
The Dominator's five-person crew landed two bluefin tuna weighing more than 300kg each in as many days
Atlantic bluefin tuna have been caught off the coast of Yorkshire for the first time in an estimated 60 years.
The giant fish had not been seen in the North Sea since the 1960s due to overfishing and the depletion of herring shoals, according to researchers from the University of Exeter who have now tagged six off Whitby.
On Sunday, the five-person crew on board The Dominator landed a whopping 338kg specimen before repeating the feat a day later with a fish which weighed "just a little bit" less, according to crew member Jack Gardner.
"I have never caught anything like it," said the 28-year-old from the village of Paull, near Hull, calling it the "best feeling ever".
Gardner, who has been on board The Dominator since 2018, said the crew had been about 10 miles from Whitby Harbour on Sunday when they made their first catch.
"It jumped out of the water, we all just looked at each other in awe," he said.
"We couldn't believe that we had actually hooked into one."
The crew had travelled to an area where they had heard the migratory species had been.
"Just as we were heading home we spotted a group of birds, so we went to try and have a look around there and that's when we hooked into one," said Gardner.