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Shark fishing in the Faroe Islands
The biggest catch you can get on rod in the Faroe Islands is the
Porbeagle Shark.
It travels around the islands all year. In winther time they live
close to the shore and they are easy to catch.
We are about 20 people that fish for the Porbeagle Shark and
last winther we caught 5 sharks.
Magnus on the breaking strength
In the summer time they seem to come in for 3-4 weeks. They travel in scoals and inhabit areas were there are huge scoals of small coalies. The size of the porbagleas are from 70 to 150 kg.
There are two main methods for shark fishing, trolling and drifting.
Most of the time we are trolling for them. But recently we started
the drifting, and it is hard to tell which one is better.
Henrik Hansen with a 222 kg porbeagle
But in the winther the majority is females...big females.
Dan Clausen fighting a 130 kg porbeagle.
Kristian Skovgård Larsen fighting a 150 kg porbeagle.
The Captain and Dan Clausen figthing a small porgie 70 kg.
Notice how clumsy(carefull) the porbeagle is when it attacs.
In this video we C&R 2 porbeagles and had 9 runs, on a 4 hour fishing trip
Trolling for Porbeagle Sharks in Faroe Islands Capt. Magni Blastein and his friend Finnur had a blast at the shark spot.... 2 followers, 1 run before this one took it in.
The latest thing regarding shark fishing is catch and release. Because they are so vulnerable, and are so few in numbers.
So from the summer of 2009 all sharks will be released.
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