"We have seen the fish only after six hours of fighting," said the 17-year-old boat owner, Wyatt Morse, for US broadcaster CNN. Morse and his two comrades caught all the fish already at the 1. July off the coast of the East coast state of Maine in the Atlantic ocean. "I have had in my life, a lot of fish on the hook," said Morse of the TV station. "And I immediately thought to myself, Okay, here's the big catch, boys."

And a big chunk of it was. "It was just seven hours of Chaos," said the 16-year-old Griffin Buckwater. The tuna have constantly tried to tear it from the hook and damage the boat. "So we had hardly any time to rest or to relax us."

hobbyists and Buckwater caught a fit of the seven-hour long duel with his camera and uploaded it on Youtube. There is to see how the fish to the boat around in circles and trying to dive – but in the end he loses the fight. With 2,79 metres in length and 317 pounds of weight, the animal was so big that it fit on the small boat. At the end of the father of the third fisherman, Martin Scanlan (16) had to come with his boat to pick it up.

With the catch did not tell the three friends is just a good story, but also decent money earned. CNN, according to a local fish factory, I paid 2000 dollars for the animal. The tuna is one of the most popular food fish in the world. Due to Overfishing, three of the eight tuna species are endangered, the southern blue fin tuna is even threatened with extinction. Only temperatures up to 30 degrees - but then threaten to heat thunderstorm PCP Initial temperatures up to 30 degrees - but then threaten heat storm