![]() When the stocks collapsed, when the population of Atlantic bluefin tuna started slumping and the US government essentially put a moratorium on catching this fish, he said, "Well, I'm going to tag fish for science, catch the fish, treat them extremely gently, and set them free with these plastic spaghetti tags." They actually look like little pieces of orange or yellow spaghetti embedded in the back of the fish. He would take anglers out and they would catch tuna. He passed away in 2018 but he was a charter fisherman. Karen Pinchin: He's the protagonist of the book, and he's kind of the beating heart of the story. Why does he do it? And why has it made him so many enemies? KCRW: The charter boat captain Al Anderson in Narragansett, Rhode Island has a very unusual business model: He catches bluefin tuna off the New England coast, puts plastic tags on them, then throws them back in the ocean. More than a decade later, Amelia showed up in the Mediterranean, having swum all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia, the fish at the heart of Pinchin's book, Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas, was first tagged off the coast of Rhode Island. ![]() A warm-bodied fish, bluefin tuna have a physiological mechanism that prevents them from losing heat through their gills, allowing them to travel insane distances. She went on a years-long, globe-spanning journey to understand this top marine predator. ![]() "There really is something otherworldly about the tuna," says journalist Karen Pinchin.
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