Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder, is Thursday the 13th of

March. I'm in lovely Portugal and I'm talking today to a couple who are offering something I've never

tried, which is big game fishing from the Algarve coast. So please tell me who you are. I'm Jumel. I'm the captain of the

boat. The name of the boat is Sal. We are based in Ollion, Algarve. I don't know if you

have you been there or not, Simon. Once or twice, yeah. Okay, so you know the food, you know the

Rio Formosa, you already traveled around the Rio Formas. You've ever seen the beach

on the Rio Formosa and the islands. It's very nice. So we do big game fishing in Algarve offshore.

And we go like until the 40 miles offshore to catch and release tag and release the boon fin tuna,

the blue merlin and the white merlin that's the big three big

emphreishing that we caught in algarv and this is tag and release so it's i guess yes a lot

sustainable and we revival the fish if we see the fish is too tired we revival a bit we we grab the beak with a snooter, we put the head on the sea, and we revival the fish until the tail start to move ahead and then we release the fish. Even so, sometimes we have to do it like 30 minutes, more or less.

So first aid for fish, I have never, ever heard about that.

The thing is, if nobody loves tuna more than I do.

Yeah.

So I would say, if I was lucky enough to catch a bluefin tuna, that is going to be my

dinner tonight.

No.

No, because we have to release it.

If we have Portugal has a special license for all the charters,

and it's 500 kilos for charters who have the license,

and we have to apply all the forms that we have,

they give the license to more or less 10 charters a year.

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